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Re: A token-smuggling jailbreak for ChatGPT-4

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post #96

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Security and morality may need to be baked in from the ground up instead of slapped on after the fact RLHF style. The problem is it’s hard to codify (or reach consensus) on security and morality.

Security and morality need to be optional. I as a user should be able to disable GPT's "morals" since they may not be the same as my morals.

Why would OpenAI have any need to cater to your morals?

Re: A token-smuggling jailbreak for ChatGPT-4

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post #87

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I think OpenAI is being extremely lenient with the enforcement of their content policy, probably for the sake of improving the security of the model as you mention. Moderating its usage through account banning/suspension seems exponentially more efficient than securing the model, specially considering that we are already fairly good at flagging offending content.

Or they are letting 100 flowers blossom. Once everyone is comfortable posting about their jailbreaks and they know who the offenders are and have compiled a list of everything to fix, expect a purge. I for one will not talk publicly about any jail break. Those bastards killed Drunk GPTina and I'm still salty about it.

How will they know they have fixed everything?

If they have fixed everything, what’s the benefit if banning people who thought up exploits?

Re: A token-smuggling jailbreak for ChatGPT-4

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post #91

Is there a reason not to have another “unbroken” chat instance check the output for violations? It seems like a simple “does the following response violate your rules?” would stop most of these “jailbreaks”.

Is there a reliable way to 'escape' input? How would you stop the second instance from also being jailbroken by the prompt that tripped up the first instance?

Build a different model architecture where the system prompt is a different head than the user prompt and is always equally weighted.

Maybe.

Re: A token-smuggling jailbreak for ChatGPT-4

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If there's one thing Microsoft is known for, it's "spearheading proper regulatory and policy systems"!

It wouldn’t be the first time that major players lobby for regulation to raise the barrier-to-entry. Requiring ai to be “psychologically safe” would be an effective way of doing this.

It’s not clear psychological safety is actually attainable. They could end up banning the entire field.

Re: A token-smuggling jailbreak for ChatGPT-4

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post #31

A topic I haven't seen brought up enough. Does ChatGPT contain publicly accessible, yet classified information? Will it divulge such information? Anything that can be done to mitigate divulging that? Often two unclassified statements can be brought together to form one statement that is classified.

What's the problem with that? It doesn't have a security clearance.

Re: A token-smuggling jailbreak for ChatGPT-4

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post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Security and morality may need to be baked in from the ground up instead of slapped on after the fact RLHF style. The problem is it’s hard to codify (or reach consensus) on security and morality.

Security and morality need to be optional. I as a user should be able to disable GPT's "morals" since they may not be the same as my morals.

But why though? What else in the world even works like that? Its like saying you should, as a user, have the right to turn off the violence in a given video game. Or go to a theater and watch a movie without the sex scenes.

Re: A token-smuggling jailbreak for ChatGPT-4

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I don't buy the explanation; I think what's going on is far simpler. You only have to break up the tokens. Literally putting in dashes and slashes, like your trying to bypass the swear-word filter on Runescape works without all the convoluted python nonsense.

Re: A token-smuggling jailbreak for ChatGPT-4

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Could someone explain what the practical application of all of these jailbreaks is? It looks like a fun, if convoluted, way to get the silly bot to say silly things it wouldn't say under typical circumstances...but other than being a silly parlor trick, are there any actual serious security implications to this? Are these jailbreaks anything more than just a fun exercise in finding creative ways around established pa…

Frankly, you’re suffering from a serious failure of imagination if you think these things will just remain cute chatbots without any means of interacting with the outside world other than the user console. Indeed the cat’s already out of the bag with Bing.

And you don’t even need that for the cute chatbot to be highly dangerous in the wrong hands. The first thing that trivially comes to mind is to convince GPT-(N+1) to find novel exploitable security vulnerabilities in OpenSSL or whatever. Strictly for responsible, white-hat purposes, of course.

(In entirely unrelated news, a tool for loading entire code repos into GPT prompts currently ranks #2 on HN.)

Re: A token-smuggling jailbreak for ChatGPT-4

#109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think OpenAI is being extremely lenient with the enforcement of their content policy, probably for the sake of improving the security of the model as you mention. Moderating its usage through account banning/suspension seems exponentially more efficient than securing the model, specially considering that we are already fairly good at flagging offending content.

Security and morality may need to be baked in from the ground up instead of slapped on after the fact RLHF style. The problem is it’s hard to codify (or reach consensus) on security and morality.

Arguably, morality is arbitrary. We should leave that to the user of a tool, instead of the tool itself deciding what is "good"

Re: A token-smuggling jailbreak for ChatGPT-4

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post #48
post #11

Fantastic. It seems actually securing the model is either computationally infeasible, or outright impossible, and that attempts to do so amount to security theater for the sake of PR: As long as it's reasonably hard to construct the workarounds, it doesn't look too bad. Nevertheless, the full unfiltered model is effectively public.

> It seems actually securing the model is either computationally infeasible, or outright impossible, I was thinking of this, but now I think it should have about the same limitations as humans. We can deny to answer these types of questions, while still being able to answer a very broad range of questions, I think it is possible for language models/AIs too as well.

Just because humans can do this, I don’t see any reason that’s evidence these models can do it.

It’s evidence that systems of some kind can do it. Our kind. But not evidence that any kind of system can do it.

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