Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

·Simon Willison··

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion First, I absolutely love this: This is a blog-style writeup of the paper. I wish every paper would come with one of these. Academic writing is pretty dry - the impact of a paper can be so much higher if you publish a readable version to accompany the formal one. Charles Ye, Jasmine Cui, and Dylan Hadfield-Menell present some fascinating research into the challenge of having models distinguish their own privileged text (here wrapped in role tags like <system>, <...

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