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Prompt injection is as fixable in LLMs as it is in people. There is no such thing as out of band data. For example it's quite common for large businesses to fall for billing fraud scams when something shows up and says "Hey, it's the CEO, pay this bill to X for $Y".

And honestly when you start looking at agentic systems that uses it's previous step to take future steps. The system has to some idea what you want to permit and don't want to permit as everyone could have different expectations here.



> "Hey, it's the CEO, pay this bill to X for $Y"

Sure. Now imagine this very scenario not limited by humans and scaling the way machines do. And then let us consider the current reality that an agentic system on the receiving end may have unlimited access because to too was vibed.




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