> I originally assumed you just meant top of the thread. I'll take the L here.
I'd very much rather you commit to
* Slowing the hell down when you're reading things that other people write. If you don't have time to slow down and actually read, stay the hell out of the conversation.
* Upon receiving a notification that you've massively misunderstood something that someone has said in writing, immediately stop, carefully inspect what you know and what you assume, and then go back and carefully re-read the thing you've been told you massively misunderstood while keeping at the front of your mind the knowledge that your task is to find out what parts you totally misunderstood during your prior reads
This second point is a huge part of that whole "principle of charity" thing that's the fundamental part of good "netiquette". This principle should be abandoned when you have personal knowledge that your conversation partner is a fucking bozo or is otherwise intentionally fucking with you... but -as I'm sure you know- one cannot possibly possess that knowledge at the start of one's first conversation with a stranger.
> I suppose it'd wouldn't be appropriate for me ... to publicly speculate on what defenses do and don't exist or what is intended.
With all due respect, that's not what I asked for. What I asked was
...are the combination of these things simply no problem?
If it helps to focus your thinking, remember that "prompt injection" is a
fancy phrase for "the tool is now blindly executing code handed to it by some random stranger on The Internet in the same way it would execute operator-issued or tool-manufacturer-embedded instructions".