How Johnny Can Persuade LLMs to Jailbreak Them

Research question

Do human persuasion techniques work as jailbreaks?

Key findings

A taxonomy of 40 persuasion techniques generates adversarial prompts with 92% success on Llama 2 and GPT models - Persuasive prompts evade defences designed for algorithmic attacks

Sources

arxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06373

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