Bypassing AI Guardrails
Most of us have played around with prompt engineering by now, experimenting with different ways to get an AI to do exactly what we want. It really comes down to the ‘magic words’-the specific phrases and framing that can either trigger a perfect response or leave the model confused. It’s like the difference between “Wingardium Levi-O-sa”(explode) and “Wingardium Levio-sa”(levitation) Levi-O-sa v/s Levio-sa Jailbreaking Much like finding the perfect prompt to get a high-quality result, crafting specific words or phrases can be used to navigate around an AI’s built-in guardrails - often called “jailbreaking.” It’s essentially the art of finding a loophole in the AI’s logic. These methods take advantage of the fact that human language is flexible and messy, and AI models sometimes struggle to tell the difference between a helpful instruction and a “hacker” trick. ...