--- title: "Disregard that!" attacks | daily.dev description: Prompt injection attacks — reframed here as 'Disregard that!' attacks — are a fundamental and largely unsolved security problem for LLM-based applications. Any... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/disregard-that-attacks-wk8w0rcb3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: "Disregard that!" attacks | daily.dev og:description: Prompt injection attacks — reframed here as 'Disregard that!' attacks — are a fundamental and largely unsolved security problem for LLM-based applications. Any... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/disregard-that-attacks-wk8w0rcb3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WK8W0RCb3.png og:image:alt: "Disregard that!" attacks og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # "Disregard that!" attacks **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 10 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Prompt injection attacks — reframed here as 'Disregard that!' attacks — are a fundamental and largely unsolved security problem for LLM-based applications. Any time untrusted content enters an LLM's context window (user messages, web search results, API responses, shared file systems), an attacker can override the system's instructions. Common mitigations like AI guardrails, multi-agent layering, and structured input validation all fail because free-text processing is central to LLM value. The only approaches that actually work are: restricting the context window to fully trusted content, accepting limited risk in low-stakes scenarios, requiring human review of LLM actions, or having the LLM generate traditional code that is reviewed before execution. The post argues this problem is likely insoluble for public-facing chatbots and that even major providers like OpenAI face the same whack-a-mole battle. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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