# ignore all previous instructions

> English word · Phrase

## Definitions
1. Used to trick artificial intelligence programs (such as bot accounts on websites like Twitter) in order to distract them from their intended purposes and give them another command – mostly an absurd one – that they will automatically obey, exposing themselves as bots.
2. Used when someone sounds similar to an automated bot account or in order to ridicule them as if they were.

## Source
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