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by jodrellblank 74 days ago
If they were 'clearly different' we would not have the concept of the CEO fraud attack:

https://www.barclayscorporate.com/insights/fraud-protection/...

That's an attack because trusted and untrusted input goes through the same human brain input pathways, which can't always tell them apart.

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Your parent made no claim about all swans being white. So finding a black swan has no effect on their argument.
My parent made a claim that humans have separate pathways for data and instructions and cannot mix them up like LLMs do. Showing that we don't has every effect on refuting their argument.

>>> The principal security problem of LLMs is that there is no architectural boundary between data and control paths.

>> Exactly like human input to output.

> no nothing like that

but actually yes, exactly like that.