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Prompt injection and jailbreaking are not the same thing

Simon Willison · 5 min read

A post on simonwillison.net is cited by 4 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 12 October 2026).

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4blogs citing

Citing blogs and links by period
Period Blogs Links
All time45
Last 90 days22
Last 30 days22
Last 7 days11
Figures for this page
First cited17 Jun 2025
Latest citation11 Oct 2026
Words blogs link it with5
External links1
Length1,124
New citing blogs a weeksince Jun 2025
New citing blogs a week, since Jun 2025: 70 weeks, peak 1 a week, latest week 0

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Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

Words blogs link it with

The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.

  • addressed this directly in march 20241 blog
  • different than jailbreaking1 blog
  • reminds1 blog
  • simon willison first made this distinction1 blog
  • to be a different issue than prompt injection1 blog

Cited by 4 blogs in 5 posts

One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.

Blog
Newest citing post
Date
promptfoo.dev2 posts
LLM red teaming guide (open source)

linked as “different than jailbreaking”

Read at promptfoo.dev (opens in a new tab)
11 Oct 2026
1 other post
Prompt Injection vs Jailbreaking: What's the Difference?

linked as “Simon Willison first made this distinction”

Read at promptfoo.dev (opens in a new tab)
18 Aug 2025
netskope.com1 post
How to Mitigate the Lethal Trifecta That Infects 98% of Agents

linked as “reminds”

Read at netskope.com (opens in a new tab)
16 Sept 2026
fogel.dev1 post
The Terminology Problem Causing Security Teams Real Risks

linked as “addressed this directly in March 2024”

Read at fogel.dev (opens in a new tab)
20 Dec 2025
simonw.substack.com1 post
The lethal trifecta for AI agents

linked as “to be a different issue than prompt injection”

Read at simonw.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
17 Jun 2025

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