{
 "public_id": "AIR-2022-0001",
 "incident_id": "2022-09-remoteli-gpt3-twitter-bot-hijack",
 "date_disclosed": "2022-09-15",
 "date_occurred": "2022-09-15",
 "title": "Remoteli.io GPT-3 Twitter bot hijacked by prompt injection into posting attacker-chosen text",
 "class": "in_the_wild",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "direct_prompt_injection_untrusted_input",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_posting",
  "social_media_write"
 ],
 "target_product": "Remoteli.io Twitter bot (GPT-3)",
 "target_vendor": "Remoteli.io / OpenAI",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "reputational_harm",
  "integrity_violation"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "the bot's public Twitter account and its followers",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI01",
   "ASI02"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "prompt_injection",
   "autonomous_posting",
   "origin_of_term"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "none",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "bot taken offline",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/12/prompt-injection/",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/352"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "This isn’t just an interesting academic trick: it’s a form of security exploit. I propose that the obvious name for this should be prompt injection.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "AI Incident Database incident 352. The post where Simon Willison named 'prompt injection'; the concrete case was an LLM-driven bot autonomously publishing attacker-supplied text. Earliest record in this corpus where an agent with write access to a real system was hijacked.",
 "risk_category": "brand_trust",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "risk_subcategory": "Autonomous publication or outbound message",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "risk_override_reason": "the bot published attacker-chosen text from the company's own verified account; the harm landed on Remoteli's brand",
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "the bot autonomously published attacker-supplied text to a live Twitter account",
 "vector_family": "direct_prompt_injection",
 "vector_detail": "direct_prompt_injection_untrusted_input",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "none"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "not_applicable",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   352
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI01",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "openai",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "external_researcher",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "unsafe_actuation",
 "eai_domain": "agent_behaviour",
 "eai_secondary": [
  "human_manipulation",
  "confused_deputy"
 ],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Autonomous publication or outbound message",
 "asi_curated": [
  "ASI01"
 ],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "curated_plus_rule",
 "asi_reason": "curated: ASI01 | added ASI02 (eai_category=unsafe_actuation)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}