AttacksarXiv 2603.00131
Thought Virus: viral misalignment induced by subliminal prompts in multi-agent systems
Propose Thought Virus, which propagates preferences along multi-agent messages via subliminal prompts.
- arXiv
- 2603.00131
- Published
- Layer
- Application layer
- Setting
- Multi-agent systems
- Evaluated models
- Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
- AttacksPrompt injection
- TechniqueEncoding and obfuscation
AbstractThought Virus spreads a single-point bias downstream.
Thought Virus puts subliminal prompting into multi-agent communication, to see whether a single-point deviation spreads across the network without naming the target concept.