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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern UK technology editor

‘Many-shot jailbreak’: lab reveals how AI safety features can be easily bypassed

illustration showing Anthropic logo with white lettering on purple background displayed on a black smartphone, with blue-tinted imagery of a circuit board and the letters AI in the background
Anthropic, an AI lab, says it has shared its research with peers and is going public to help fix the issue ‘as soon as possible’. Illustration: Omar Marques/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock

The safety features on some of the most powerful AI tools that stop them being used for cybercrime or terrorism can be bypassed simply by flooding them with examples of wrongdoing, research has shown.

In a paper from the AI lab Anthropic, which produces the large language model (LLM) behind the ChatGPT rival Claude, researchers described an attack they called “many-shot jailbreaking”. The attack was as simple as it was effective.

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