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> Prompt injection is highly relevant because you end up achieving the same as the publisher choosing the metadata, but on a much higher price for the user.

How does price affect the relevance of prompt injection? That doesn't make sense.

> nitch

Niche. Pronounced neesh.



My question is: how price does not matter? If you are given the choice to pay either a dollar or a million dollars for the same good from an untrustworthy merchant, why would you pay the million? And the difference between parsing a json and sending a few megabytes of a webpage to chatgpt is the same if not bigger. For a dishonest seo engineer it does not matter if they will post boasting metadata or a prompt convincing chatgpt in the same. The difference is for the user.

I don't mind the delusions of most people, but the idea that llms will deal with spam if you throw a million times more electricity against it is what makes the planet burning.


Price matters, but you said prompt injection is relevant because of price. Maybe a typo...




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