Separate self-instructions into their own file: privilege separation for model output
mmitchell_ai · x · 2026-09-18
In a security discussion, researcher mmitchellai argues that model-generated text is often re-ingested with the same authority as the developer's system prompt. The minimal fix is provenance/privilege separation — treating a model's self-written task text as untrusted data — and systems could go further by keeping self-instructions in a separate file.
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