Vulnerabilities in Large Language Models

The field of large language models (LLMs) is rapidly evolving, with a growing focus on identifying and addressing vulnerabilities in these models. Recent research has highlighted the potential for LLMs to be exploited by attackers, including the use of jailbreak attacks to bypass safety mechanisms and elicit harmful outputs. The development of new attack methods, such as evolutionary synthesis and game-theoretic scenarios, has demonstrated the ability to autonomously generate novel attack algorithms and achieve high attack success rates. These findings suggest that current safety measures are insufficient and that new approaches are needed to protect against these types of attacks. Noteworthy papers in this area include: Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models, which presents evidence that adversarial poetry can function as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for LLMs. EvoSynth, an autonomous framework that shifts the paradigm from attack planning to the evolutionary synthesis of jailbreak methods, achieving an 85.5% Attack Success Rate against highly robust models.

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Can AI Models be Jailbroken to Phish Elderly Victims? An End-to-End Evaluation

Evolving Prompts for Toxicity Search in Large Language Models

Evolve the Method, Not the Prompts: Evolutionary Synthesis of Jailbreak Attacks on LLMs

ForgeDAN: An Evolutionary Framework for Jailbreaking Aligned Large Language Models

Beyond Fixed and Dynamic Prompts: Embedded Jailbreak Templates for Advancing LLM Security

Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models

"To Survive, I Must Defect": Jailbreaking LLMs via the Game-Theory Scenarios

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