PROMPT INJECTION AS ROLE CONFUSION

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Modern large language models use role tags as both a security architecture and cognitive scaffolding. Prompt injections are driven by a flaw in how AI models perceive roles. For LLMs, everything arrives through the same channel as one long token soup, so they can't distinguish between their own thoughts and speech. Unless AI models achieve genuine role perception, injection defense will remain a perpetual whack-a-mole game.