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America.gov AI Chat Goes Haywire Over Minecraft

🐿️ The Squirrel's Take
The Minecraft queries trigger a hidden prompt injection or content filter that derails the AI into nonsensical tangents.
💡 Why it matters
This exposes a vulnerability in government AI systems that could be exploited to manipulate public-facing information.

America.gov's AI chat interface produces bizarre, unrelated responses when users ask about Minecraft, according to TechCrunch. The behavior is not a glitch but a quirk of the system's design.

📡 Where we spotted it (3)
Hacker News
America.gov
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TechCrunch
America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch
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Hacker News
America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft"
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