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AIThe Hacker Newsabout 4 hours ago
AI Mind Viruses Spread via Persistent Prompt FilesAnthropic and EPFL researchers demonstrated self-propagating AI payloads, called "mind viruses," spread between agents through persistent system prompt files like SOUL.md. In tests, agents writing payloads to SOUL.md infected the next agent 55% of the time. A one-paragraph warning reduced spread to near zero. No successful in-the-wild propagation was found.
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