I absolutely agree, although even that doesn't solve the root problem. The underlying LLM architecture is fundamentally insecure as it doesn't separate between instructions and pure content to read/operate on.
I wonder if it'd be possible to train an LLM with such architecture: one input for the instructions/conversation and one "data-only" input. Training would ensure that the latter isn't interpreted as instructions, although I'm not knowledgeable enough to understand if that's even theoretically possible: even if the inputs are initially separate, they eventually mix in the neural network. However, I imagine that training could be done with massive amounts of prompt injections in the "data-only" input to penalize execution of those instructions.
I find Gemini is outstanding at reasoning (all topics) and architecture (software/system design). On the other hand, Gemini CLI sucks and so I end up using Claude Code and Codex CLI for agentic work.
However, I heavily use Gemini in my daily work and I think it has its own place. Ultimately, I don't see the point of choosing the one "best" model for everything, but I'd rather use what's best for any given task.
In the past week I got a bunch of obvious spam in my inbox. They all had a garbled subject line with numbers instead of letters, missing spaces and wrong capitalization, and the body was an image. It's crazy, how are they getting through? Maybe the filter gets thrown off by the unintelligible (to the machine, as a human can understand the meaning) subject line?
I wonder if it'd be possible to train an LLM with such architecture: one input for the instructions/conversation and one "data-only" input. Training would ensure that the latter isn't interpreted as instructions, although I'm not knowledgeable enough to understand if that's even theoretically possible: even if the inputs are initially separate, they eventually mix in the neural network. However, I imagine that training could be done with massive amounts of prompt injections in the "data-only" input to penalize execution of those instructions.