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Claude’s new AI file-creation feature ships with security risks built in


Expert calls security advice “unfairly outsourcing the problem to Anthropic’s users.”…

"I plan to be cautious using this feature with any data that I very much don’t want to be leaked to a third party, if there’s even the slightest chance that a malicious instruction might sneak its way in," he wrote on his blog. That kind of "ship first, secure it later" philosophy has caused frustrations among some AI experts like Willison, who has extensively documented prompt injection vulnerabilities (and coined the term). He recently described the current state of AI security as "horrifying" on his blog, noting that these prompt injection vulnerabilities remain widespread "almost three years after we first started talking about them."

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