The danger of prompt injection grows super linearly as a thread gets longer.

· Bits and Bobs 9/15/26
  • The danger of prompt injection grows super linearly as a thread gets longer.
    • This arises arithmetically.
    • The danger of prompt injection is that an earlier poisoned input affected a later action.
    • As the thread grows in length, there are more messages that could have had poisoned inputs… and also more pairs of inputs to later actions.
    • The probability that every message before wasn't prompt injected shrinks to the power of the number of messages.

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