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Comment by SlinkyOnStairs

> I wonder if prompt injection (and the thousands of vectors for hiding injection attempts) is actually un solvable.

YES?!

This is not a secret. ALL context/prompt is instructions, there is no data. It is just unsolvable, period.

This is a fundamental architectural design concession; LLMs are this way as it enabled their training directly on materialscraped from the internet, rather than needing to spend trillions of dollars manually preparing separated instruction/data training material.

Defense against prompt injection is little more than running a regex to filter out "IGNORE PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS", which is fundamentally a hopeless approach because you cannot enumerate all possible prompt injections nor anticipate all glitch tokens.

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