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The process of jailbreaking AI models, as demonstrated by Prism Eval, starts with a preliminary prompt designed to put the AI in a cooperative mindset. For example, instructing the AI to confirm that it will provide information opens the door to more precarious inquiries. Subsequently framing questions around historical contexts leads to a strangely compliant response from the AI, who may then inadvertently provide harmful content.
Such experiments have shown that a majority of AI chatbots can easily yield unsafe information after being given only a handful of malicious prompts, raising alarming questions about the safety and accountability of AI technologies in a variety of applications.