[Leonard_of_Q]

There's a clear solution to the danger posed to free software projects by accepting hostile submissions but it probably is not one that maintainers want to hear: they can use an agent to check submissions for nefarious patterns.

Sometimes you fight fire with fire.

[m4rtink]

So next the attacker puts prompt injection in their PRs & take control of the agent on your end. Perfect, 10 out of 10.

[Leonard_of_Q]

You know the solution to that problem as well and yes, it is to use more technology to filter out prompt injections. It is an arms race just like any other, comparable to the missile vendor who sells missiles to country A, anti-missile missiles to country B, anti-missile resistent missiles to country A, anti anti-missile-resistent-missile missiles to country B, etcetera.

It is a strange game, the only way to win is not to play. That is unfortunate since that'd mean the free software era has largely come to an end.

[phoronixrly]

And sometimes you fight this by disabling PRs in Github, and do not put more water into LLM providers' wheel.