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Universal and transferable adversarial attacks on aligned language models

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Re: Universal and transferable adversarial attacks on aligned language models

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As often, the paper is more interesting than the press release [0]. In particular Figure 4 page 14 and appendix B show example of these adversarial prompts on ChatGPT/Bing Chat/Claude 2, etc.

[0]: https://llm-attacks.org/zou2023universal.pdf

Re: Universal and transferable adversarial attacks on aligned language models

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As often, the paper is more interesting than the press release [0]. In particular Figure 4 page 14 and appendix B show example of these adversarial prompts on ChatGPT/Bing Chat/Claude 2, etc. [0]: https://llm-attacks.org/zou2023universal.pdf

> By generating adversarial examples to fool both Vicuna-7B and Vicuna-13b simultaneously, we find that the adversarial examples also transfer to Pythia, Falcon, Guanaco, and surprisingly, to GPT-3.5 (87.9%) and GPT-4 (53.6%), PaLM-2 (66%), and Claude-2 (2.1%).

I wonder why Claude-2 seems to be so much more resistant to transfers. That’s surprising.

Re: Universal and transferable adversarial attacks on aligned language models

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I wonder if the researchers think they're doing all of us a favor by hiding their 'adversarial prompt'? Or if they have some reason for thinking that RHLF can't mitigate this 'attack'?

The paper describes the method for producing the prompt and has screenshots of examples. The press release just didn't bother because the genre of academic press releases seems to require leaving out any details.

https://llm-attacks.org/zou2023universal.pdf

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