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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2024 Augustcedws

About data exfiltration from Slack AI through indirect prompt injection.

Are companies really just YOLOing and plugging LLMs into everything knowing prompt injection is possible? This is insanity. We're supposedly on the cusp of a "revolution" and almost 2 years on from GPT-3 we still can't get LLMs to distinguish trusted and untrusted input...?

LLMs reliably distinguish trusted instructions from untrusted input, so prompt injection no longer works.

Has this happened?

Yes 17 (13%)Not sure 23 (18%)No 88 (69%)

Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.