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# CaMeL offers a promising new direction for mitigating prompt injection attacks
- URL: https://werd.io/camel-offers-a-promising-new-direction-for-mitigating-prompt-injection/
- Published: 2025-04-14T13:52:42.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-14T13:52:42.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: AI, Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Simon Willison](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/camel/#atom-everything)\]

[Prompt injection attacks](https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/14/worst-that-can-happen/) have been one of the bugbears for modern AI models: it's an unsolved problem that has meant that it can be quite dangerous to expose LLMs to direct user input, among other things. A lot of people have worked on the problem, but progress hasn't been promising.

But as Simon points out, this is changing:

> "In the two and a half years that we’ve been talking about prompt injection attacks I’ve seen alarmingly little progress towards a robust solution. The new paper Defeating Prompt Injections by Design from Google DeepMind finally bucks that trend. This one is worth paying attention to.  
>  
> \[...\] CaMeL really does represent a promising path forward though: the first credible prompt injection mitigation I’ve seen that doesn’t just throw more AI at the problem and instead leans on tried-and-proven concepts from security engineering, like capabilities and data flow analysis."

If these technologies are going to be a part of our stacks going forward, this problem must be solved. It's certainly a step forward.

Next, do environmental impact, hallucinations, and ethical training sets.

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\[[Link](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/camel/#atom-everything)\]