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My guess would be the response text is passed through a rudimentary templating engine that looks for
{
and}
. Somehow it must be processing the whole chat history. The templater fails at the unexpected braces in the code block and then just gives up (probably a try-catch ignores the error and sends the message anyway).So the attack would just be a
}
then?