Delimiters won't save you from prompt injection

Prompt injection remains an unsolved problem. The best we can do at the moment, disappointingly, is to raise awareness of the issue. As I pointed out last week, "if you don’t understand it, you are doomed to implement it."

There are many proposed solutions, and because prompting is a weirdly new, non-deterministic and under-documented field, it's easy to assume that these solutions are effective when they actually aren't.

The simplest of those is to use delimiters to mark the …

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