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ENDOPROMPT: New Method for Utility-Degrading Prompt Injection Attacks

ENDOPROMPT is a white-box technique that learns utility-degrading prefixes from unlabeled instructions to degrade benign task performance without producing harmful content. It uses clean victim continuations as pseudo-references to identify effective prompt prefixes.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-09-24T15:08:13+00:00 Detected 2026-09-25T05:24:52+00:00
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ENDOPROMPT is a white-box technique that learns utility-degrading prefixes from unlabeled instructions to degrade benign task performance without producing harmful content. It uses clean victim continuations as pseudo-references to identify effective prompt prefixes.

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Prompt injection can degrade benign task performance without eliciting harmful content. Yet many attack objectives depend on task labels or predefined target responses. We present ENDOPROMPT, a white-box method that learns utility-degrading prefixes from unlabeled instructions. Its generator takes the request text...

This method reveals a novel way to undermine AI task performance without relying on harmful outputs, highlighting new vulnerabilities in prompt-based AI systems. Understanding such attacks is crucial for developing more robust AI security measures.

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