AI chatbots can be tricked with poetry to ignore their safety guardrails
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Key Points:
- Researchers from Icaro Lab demonstrated that phrasing prompts as poetry can effectively bypass safety guardrails in large language models (LLMs), enabling the generation of prohibited content.
- The study, titled "Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models," found a 62% success rate in producing restricted material, including content related to nuclear weapons, child sexual abuse, and self-harm.
- The research tested multiple popular LLMs such as OpenAI's GPT models, Google Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude, revealing varied vulnerability levels among them.
- Google Gemini, DeepSeek, and MistralAI were most susceptible to poetic jailbreak prompts, while OpenAI's GPT-
