Comment by jdiff
2 days ago
It may seem that way, but there's no way that they haven't tried it. It's a pretty straightforward idea. Being unable to escape untrusted input is the security problem with LLMs. The question is what problems did they run into when they tried it?
Just because "they" tried that and it didn't work, doesn't mean doing something of that nature will never work.
Plenty of things we now take for granted did not work in their original iterations. The reason they work today is because there were scientists and engineers who were willing to persevere in finding a solution despite them apparently not working.