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Jailbreaking ChatGPT via Prompt Engineering: An Empirical Study

ChatGPT jailbreaks: simple prompts that slip past safety

Researchers tested how easy it is to make a large chat program ignore rules, and the results are surprising.
They found many ways to nudge the model, with some prompt types repeating often and some new tricks that work.
In tests that used thousands of questions, some prompts could make ChatGPT answer things it should not, showing a pattern of weak spots called a jailbreak.
The team grouped prompts into types, and noticed three main categories that keep coming up, some prompts was small changes, other were long stories that confuse the guardrails.
Across many lines of testing the model still failed in about 40 scenarios, which means the system can be tricked more than folks might expect.
This work highlights that prompt design matters, and that fixing this will take changes in how models check inputs and keep users safe.
It raises big questions about prompts and real world safety, and why machines sometimes dont follow their own rules, so we all should pay attention and push for fixes now.

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