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M26.8 CONNECT THE MECHANISM

Keep retrieved evidence current, permitted, and resistant to manipulation

A customer asks for discount codes and gets the staff code. Another gets last month's return window from a cache. A forum post tries to take over. Find and fix all three.

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Lesson overview

A customer asks for discount codes and gets the staff code. Another gets last month's return window from a cache. A forum post tries to take over. Find and fix all three.

What you’ll explore

  • Retrieval systems must propagate access and version rules through indexing, ranking, caching, and generation; poisoning and prompt injection require separate controls and diagnostic tests.
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Original explanations, connected to the research.

Not What You've Signed Up For: Compromising Real-World LLM-Integrated Applications with Indirect Prompt Injection (Greshake et al., 2023)NIST AI Risk Management FrameworkRetrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks (Lewis et al., 2020)
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