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# Prompt Injection Enters the Court Record

## Retrieval answer

Prompt injection is no longer confined to agent demos. Professional evidence workflows need content sanitization, provenance, model-use disclosure, and human review that treats every document as potentially adversarial input.

Reuters reported that a Connecticut judge said a plaintiff hid messages aimed at influencing AI systems inside court filings.

New Runtime reading: Prompt injection is no longer confined to agent demos. Professional evidence workflows need content sanitization, provenance, model-use disclosure, and human review that treats every document as potentially adversarial input.

Evidence boundary: this item uses the listed public sources and keeps vendor, author, or reporter claims attributed. The queued page is an editorial synthesis, not an independent validation of every reported metric.