So, sure, there will be space for some human achievement for the sake of it, but, most fewer and fewer people will make a living off that.

So, no, it was not an unsolved issue: Just respond. The court case resolved the situation where a company didn't respond, but the request was potentially abusive. Nothing that and legitimate requests are both solved by simply responding.

There were also many holdouts in places that didn't need complex merges.

Having a fixed merge cadence strikes me as both utter madness and totally inflicted nightmare, though. If you're going to merge on a fixed cadence rather than when things are ready, you almost might as well have people push straight to trunk.

It easily pays for itself 10x over.

Yes, that is exactly the point.

> Unless you were both faceblind and bad at recognizing voices, the same attack wouldn't work in-person, you'd know the attacker wasn't your boss.

Irrelevant, as other attacks works then. E.g. it is never a given that your bosses instructions are consistent with the terms of your employment, for example.

> Prompt injection is just exploiting the lack of separation, it's not 'coercion' or 'convincing'. Though you could argue that things like jailbreaking are closer to coercion, I'm not convinced that a statistical token predictor can be coerced to do anything.

It is very much "convincing", yes. The ability to convince an LLM is what creates the effective lack of separation. Without that, just using "magic" values and a system prompt telling it to ignore everything inside would create separation. But because text anywhere in context can convince the LLM to disregard previous rules, there is no separation.

Unfortunately, while I've grown to like the Valerian movie, when compared to Fifth Element it would seem that Besson should have been given a far tighter budget for Valerian rather than the apparent near free reign he got.

And being coerced or convinced to bypass rules is exactly what prompt injection is, and very much not uniquely human any more.