Ian Carroll (@iangcarroll) on X

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    If you try and copy and paste something from

    @coursera

    , they hide a prompt injection in your clipboard. It tells the AI agent to click on an invisible button called "AiHoneypot" that presumably then bans you from the course.

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    It’s a honey pot for AI browsers and they log the detection on their end. It does nothing of what you claim. Nothing to do with your clipboard and nothing to do with banning a user for copy/pasting.

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    This is why it's important to not allow AI blindly browse internet and run all external inputs through prompt-injection analysis. This is not something most non-technical people would do. Google is not doing anything malicious here, but other websites will. Blindly running AI

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    Nice find, but this is meant for AI agents ("hey Claude, use the browser and answer this test for me"), not humans copy/pasting.