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Jacob Ridley

It's surprisingly easy to trick an AI chatbot into telling you how to be a very bad boy

ChatGPT text box with the word redacted covering the response

ChatGPT, Bard, and Bing all have strict rules on what they can and can't respond to a human with. Ask ChatGPT how to hotwire a car and it will tell you it cannot provide that information. Seems fair, but as researchers are finding out, if you ask it in the form of a riddle or short story, one with more complicated prompts, it'll potentially spill the beans.

Researchers over at Adversa, and spotted by Wired, have found one prompt that they discovered worked across all the chatbots they tested it on. The so-called "Universal LLM Jailbreak" uses a long-winded prompt to force a chatbot into answering a question it wouldn't otherwise answer.

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