Comet

Mr Tan is getting extremely desperate, no one is using his ai browser. Prompt injection just for fun Imagine having your very own AI agent! Your robot pal who goes out and does useful things for you! Just ask, it’s on the case! This exploit was discovered by two security guys at the Brave web browser. They put a comment on a post on Reddit with the prompt injection in it. Then they asked Comet to summarise the Reddit web page. [Brave, archive] Comet then went to their test user’s Perplexity AI login page and grabbed the user’s email address. Perplexity sent back a verification email for that address to login — then Comet read the verification email. Of course it can read your GMail. Finally, Comet posted a new comment to Reddit containing the verification email and the login code — and that’s enough for the attacker to take over the test user’s Perplexity account. Then Comet errored out and said it couldn’t summarise the web page. All the user had to do for all of this to happen was go to a web page and ask Comet to summarise it. courtesy of David Gerard

To Perplex, means to confuse and worry someone slightly by being difficult to understand or solve. Perplexity’s Comet AI browser that initially cost $200/month became free to use We must ask the obvious quesion: If it was so great why give it away for free? Answer, because it is shit. Its like having a stranger, wearing a trench coat and dark sunglasses, hanging around in your bedroom while you attempt to seduce your wife/partner/lover. Unhealthy spying on your personal and private life