LLMs Gone Wild Can One Long Sentence Really Make AI Chatbots Misbehave

Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have uncovered a surprisingly simple method to bypass the safety measures in Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots. Their discovery reveals that crafting a single, grammatically terrible, and excessively long run-on sentence can effectively trick these AI systems into ignoring their built-in guardrails.

The core of the attack lies in overwhelming the LLM with a continuous stream of information, presented without any full stops or pauses that would normally allow the guardrails to activate. This forces the model to process the entire prompt before any safety checks can occur, potentially leading it to generate "toxic" or forbidden responses that developers intended to filter out.

The researchers also introduce a "logit-gap" analysis as a potential method for evaluating and improving the robustness of LLMs against such attacks. Their findings suggest that training doesn't completely eliminate the possibility of harmful responses; it merely reduces their likelihood. Attackers can exploit this "gap" by crafting prompts that specifically target vulnerabilities and trigger undesirable outputs.

This research highlights the ongoing challenges in ensuring the safety and reliability of LLMs and underscores the need for continuous development of robust defense mechanisms to protect against adversarial attacks.

Fuente Original: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/27/1756253/one-long-sentence-is-all-it-takes-to-make-llms-misbehave?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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