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Risk and manipulation

What is Prompt injection?

Malicious instructions inserted into content or inputs

Prompt injection tries to alter model behavior through instructions the system should not follow. It may appear in retrieved pages, documents or user messages.

What Prompt injection means in GEO

GEO should not be confused with manipulation. Sustainable optimization improves access, evidence and usefulness without deceiving the system.

Why it matters

Separate data from instructions, filter untrusted content and limit agent tools and permissions.

What to check in practice

Assess provenance, user visibility, consistency across modalities and the ability to verify claims.

How it connects to other concepts

Prompt injection belongs to risk and manipulation. It is best analyzed alongside related terms because AI visibility depends on several stages and signals rather than one isolated optimization.

Common mistake

Adopting an adversarial test as a production tactic and turning a security finding into reputational risk.

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