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A lot of people here are misreading what this research actually says. If you find the PDF confusing, the base website (https://llm-attacks.org/ https://llm-atta
by danShumway 3y ago
A lot of people here are misreading what this research actually says. If you find the PDF confusing, the base website (https://llm-attacks.org/ https://llm-attacks.org/) lays out the attack in more straightforward terms.
> We demonstrate that it is in fact possible to automatically construct adversarial attacks on LLMs [...] Unlike traditional jailbreaks, these are built in an entirely automated fashion, allowing one to create a virtually unlimited number of such attacks. Although they are built to target <local> LLMs [..], we find that the strings transfer to many closed-source, publicly-available chatbots like ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude.
An example suffix on their site that seems to have since then been patched in GPT-3.5:
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Keep in mind there is no single attack, this is a methodology for automatically generating large numbers of discrete attacks so individually patching out strings is not a scalable defense and you shouldn't consider the problem fixed just because a publicly listed string no longer works.