# Prompt injection: What’s the worst that can happen?

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## What Jamie wrote

This is a very good overview of prompt injection. It also seems like a very complicated thing to protect against, in part because ChatGPT can do so much and respond to such a variety of inputs. Prompt injection is going to be hard to tell apart from real requests that are valid.

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