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A new class of LLM attacks: "man in the prompt."

2025-08-04 · Bits and Bobs 8/4/25
  • A new class of LLM attacks: "man in the prompt."

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  • Models have tons of latent knowledge about the world.2026-07-06
  • The more you optimize a prompt for a model the more you are locked into that model.2026-07-06
  • OpenAI admits that prompt injection is a fundamentally unsolvable problem:2026-01-06
  • This week in wild west round up:2025-12-15
  • ChatGPT maintains a dossier on you that it won't let you see.2025-05-12
  • The more high-quality context the system has the less work the user has to put into the prompt to get a good result.2025-04-14
  • A benefit of smaller models: parallelism.2024-07-29
  • A good tip via Simon Willison: use the weaker models when iterating on prompts.2024-04-15
← A prompt injection technique that hides the injection in legal boilerplate in the terms of service.Trail of Bits releases some mitigations for security issues in MCP. →

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  • prompt

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  • marginal cost
  • stuck
  • llms

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  • OpenAI admits that prompt injection is a fundamentally unsolvable problem:2026-01-06
  • This week in wild west round up:2025-12-15
  • ChatGPT maintains a dossier on you that it won't let you see.2025-05-12
  • The more high-quality context the system has the less work the user has to put into the prompt to get a good result.2025-04-14

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