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Why AI models still cannot tell which instructions to trust

AI systems face a foundational vulnerability: they cannot reliably distinguish trusted instructions from malicious ones. OpenAI's instruction hierarchy training is a first step, but the company's own evolution toward reasoning-based approaches suggests training data alone may not be enough.

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*OpenAI published a training methodology in April 2024 addressing this exact failure. It targets the inability of AI models to distinguish between instructions to trust and instructions to ignore. The paper, arXiv:2404.13208 (a preprint, not yet peer-reviewed), proposes a three-tier privilege system and training methods to enforce it. Two years...

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