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title: Risks of Multimodal AI Systems
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description: Visual prompt injection, privacy, context leakage and tool manipulation when a multimodal system can observe and act.
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    <h1>Risks of Multimodal AI Systems</h1><p>Visual prompt injection, privacy, context leakage and tool manipulation when a multimodal system can observe and act.</p>
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    <div class="s5-video-watch__snippet-grid"><article><span>01</span><h2>1. Visual prompt injection</h2><p>Prompt injection is an attack in which an attacker places instructions for the model inside content that the model processes as data.</p></article>
<article><span>02</span><h2>2. System leakage and tool manipulation</h2><p>When a multimodal system has access to tools—API calls, database access, the ability to send messages—visual prompt injection can be used not only to alter the system&#x27;s response but also…</p></article>
<article><span>03</span><h2>3. Privacy: images, documents and metadata</h2><p>Multimodal systems that process images and documents have access to categories of personal information that text-only systems generally do not handle, and the risk comes not only from…</p></article></div>
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