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 āmagic wordsā-the specific phrases and framing that can either trigger a perfect response or leave the model confused. Itās like the difference between āWingardium Levi-O-saā(explode) and āWingardium Levio-saā(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 AIās built-in guardrails - often called ājailbreaking.ā Itās essentially the art of finding a loophole in the AIās 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 āhackerā trick. ...