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by Xirdus 158 days ago
SQL injection is possible when input is interpreted as code. The protection - prepared statements - works by making it possible to interpret input as not-code, unconditionally, regardless of content.

Prompt injection is possible when input is interpreted as prompt. The protection would have to work by making it possible to interpret input as not-prompt, unconditionally, regardless of content. Currently LLMs don't have this capability - everything is a prompt to them, absolutely everything.
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kentm 158 days ago
Yeah but everyone involved in the LLM space is encouraging you to just slurp all your data into these things uncritically. So the comparison to eval would be everyone telling you to just eval everything for 10x productivity gains, and then when you get exploited those same people turn around and say “obviously you shouldn’t be putting everything into eval, skill issue!”
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acjohnson55 158 days ago
Yes, because the upside is so high. Exploits are uncommon, at this stage, so until we see companies destroyed or many lives ruined, people will accept the risk.
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