On the contrary, I think that's exactly what people think (except maybe people on this site). See the loads of GPT "prompt hacking" and "jailbreaking" guides...
You may be living in a bubble if you think the people who are talking about "prompt hacking" are representative of the average person who reads headlines like these.
Well, I'm talking about the 180 million ChatGPT users. A bubble, but a large one.
I can promise you most ChatGPT users don't even know what a GPT is. That's like saying if you own an Apple Silicon Macbook then you must know what ARM architecture is.
Are those guides featured in mainstream media that most of these people consume? Most ChatGPT users don’t know what LLM is, let alone “prompt engineering”.