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PromptShield-Home: Defending Smart-Home AI from Ambient Prompt Injection

PromptShield-Home is a new benchmark designed to test smart-home assistants' ability to distinguish genuine user commands from ambient or external content like TV speech or overheard conversations. It addresses safety concerns arising from multimodal large language models that process video and aud...

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-08-06T00:51:46+00:00 Detected 2026-08-07T05:23:04+00:00
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PromptShield-Home is a new benchmark designed to test smart-home assistants' ability to distinguish genuine user commands from ambient or external content like TV speech or overheard conversations. It addresses safety concerns arising from multimodal large language models that process video and aud...

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Smart-home assistants increasingly use multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that perceive video and audio directly. This raises a safety question specific to the home: can the agent tell a genuine user command from ambient or externally-sourced content, television speech, on-screen text, or an overheard...

As smart-home agents increasingly rely on multimodal LLMs, they risk misinterpreting ambient content as commands, potentially causing unintended actions. PromptShield-Home aims to improve the reliability and security of these systems in real-world home environments.

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