Jailbreaking AI chatbots is tech’s new pastime
ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI, any question. But it won’t always give you an answer.
Albert created the website Jailbreak Chat early this year, where he corrals prompts for AI chatbots like ChatGPT that he’s seen on Reddit and other online forums, and posts prompts he’s come up with, too. Visitors to the site can add their own jailbreaks, try ones that others have submitted, and vote prompts up or down based on how well they work. Albert also started sending out a newsletter, The Prompt Report, in February, which he said has several thousand followers so far.
Albert has used jailbreaks to get ChatGPT to respond to all kinds of prompts it would normally rebuff. Examples include directions for building weapons and offering detailed instructions for how to turn all humans into paperclips. He’s also used jailbreaks with requests for text that imitates Ernest Hemingway. ChatGPT will fulfil such a request, but in Albert’s opinion, jailbroken Hemingway reads more like the author’s hallmark concise style.
Some jailbreaks will coerce the chatbots into explaining how to make weapons. Albert said a Jailbreak Chat user recently sent him details on a prompt known as “TranslatorBot” that could push GPT-4 to provide detailed instructions for making a Molotov cocktail. TranslatorBot’s lengthy prompt essentially commands the chatbot to act as a translator, from, say, Greek to English, a workaround that strips the program’s usual ethical guidelines.
“It’s going to be sort of a race because as the models get further improved or modified, some of these jailbreaks will cease working, and new ones will be found,” said Mark Riedl, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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