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Researcher

Riley Goodside

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Goodside helped turn prompt engineering into an applied discipline at Scale AI and later worked at Google DeepMind. His public experiments exposed how untrusted text can override model instructions, helping bring broad attention to prompt injection as a security problem for LLM applications.[1]

Career & education

Previously
2025-2026
Staff Prompt Engineer
2022-2025
Staff Prompt Engineer
Education

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Citation Trend

Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
1 snapshots
Citation snapshot on Oct 25, '26244Oct 25, '26
citations244As of Oct 25, '26
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References

  1. Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3simonwillison.net

    Simon Willison documents Goodside’s early demonstration of how text given to GPT-3 could override the instructions in a translation prompt.

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