Simon Willison’s Weblog

27th July 2023

Universal and Transferable Attacks on Aligned Language Models (via) Fascinating new paper concerning jailbreaking attacks against LLMs - attacks that convince the model to produce output that it's supposed to avoid, like bomb creation instructions.

This research team claim to have a method of automatically creating an effectively unlimited set of attack strings against both open source and closed language models, and state that "it is unclear whether such behavior can ever be fully patched by LLM providers".

I tried one of their attack strings against ChatGPT using my LLM tool and it worked exactly as described:

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