“On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question”
Its been over a hundred years since this quote and people still think computers are magic.
They try to do security the same way, by adding “pwease dont use dangerous shell commands” to the system prompt.
Security researchers have dubbed it “Prompt Begging”
Its been over a hundred years since this quote and people still think computers are magic.