The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication

Developers who misunderstand these terms and assume prompt injection is the same as jailbreaking will frequently ignore this issue as irrelevant to them, because they don’t see it as their problem if an LLM embarrasses its vendor by spitting out a recipe for napalm. The issue really is relevant—both to developers building applications on top of LLMs and to the end users who are taking advantage of these systems by combining tools to match their own needs.