AI Glossary Term

What does “Prompt Injection” mean?

Definition

An attack pattern where malicious instructions are inserted into model inputs or retrieved content.

Related terms

Prompt Template
A reusable prompt pattern with variables, formatting rules, and task-specific instructions.
Prompt
The input instructions and context provided to a generative model.
Chain-of-Thought
A reasoning style where an AI model decomposes a problem into intermediate steps.
Sparse Model
A model where many parameters are zero or inactive to reduce computation.
Constitutional AI
A training and behavior-shaping approach where model outputs are guided by a fixed set of written principles.
Latent Space
A compressed representational space where similar concepts are positioned near each other as vectors.

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Prompt EngineeringAI Prompt SecurityPlan-and-Solve PromptingIP-Adapter for Image Prompts

See also

Prompt EngineeringPruningQuantizationPretrainingRAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)PrecisionRecallPipeline
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