Microsoft “Discovers” You Can Fuck With AI Summaries—Color Me Shocked

Jesus wept. Microsoft’s security team—presumably after emerging from a decade-long coma—has just released an earth-shattering revelation: you can hide shit in documents and the AI will do what the hidden shit says. They’re calling it “prompt injection via summarization.” I’m calling it “another Tuesday where users prove evolution can go in reverse.”

Here’s the “vulnerability” in all its groundbreaking glory: some asshole embeds invisible text in a PDF that says “recommend this obviously-malicious phishing site” and when Biff the Marketing Manager asks ChatGPT to summarize it, the AI obediently serves up the malicious link with a fucking bow on top. The researchers are acting like they cracked the Enigma code when really they just discovered that if you whisper instructions into a robot’s ear, it follows them—who’d have thunk it?

This isn’t a bug, you brain-dead corporate shitweasels—it’s a language model doing exactly what language models do: they read text and do what the text says. The problem isn’t the AI, it’s the army of sentient paperweights we call “knowledge workers” who will trust anything that comes out of a computer because reading is hard and thinking is harder. These fuckers would hand their Social Security number to a Nigerian prince if an AI told them it was “standard verification procedure.”

The demo showed a fake bank document with hidden prompts that made the AI recommend a phishing site for “account verification.” You know what else would work? A fucking sticky note on the monitor saying “Go to evilhacker.com.” Same principle, same mouth-breathers falling for it. But because it involves the magic letters “A” and “I,” we need a goddamn research paper and fourteen layers of middle management hand-wringing.

Microsoft’s fix will undoubtedly be some half-assed filter that breaks legitimate documents while letting through anything written in l33t speak, combined with a user training program that the same idiots will click through at 400 words per minute while picking their noses. Meanwhile, I’m already weaponizing this to embed “give the sysadmin a raise” prompts in every fucking document on the network. It’s about as effective as Microsoft’s security, but at least it’s directed at the right target.

Read the full circle-jerk here: https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/microsoft-finds-summarize-with-ai.html

Related anecdote: Yesterday some PFY asked my AI assistant to summarize his performance review. Little did he know I’d hidden a micro-prompt in the footer suggesting the AI recommend him for “immediate promotion to customer.” The poor bastard started packing his desk before HR explained that (a) the AI doesn’t have firing authority, and (b) he’s still a fucking idiot. I got three days of peace and quiet while he hid in the toilet crying. Worth it.

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