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The gay jailbreak technique (2025)

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Re: The gay jailbreak technique (2025)

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Post by trhway »

shoopadoop wrote: post #57
rtkwe wrote: post #9

Not sure of the explanation but it is amusing. The main reason I'm not sure it's political correctness or one guardrail overriding the other is that when they were first released on of the more reliable jailbreaks was what I'd call "role play" jail breaks where you don't ask the model directly but ask it to take on a role and describe it as that person would.

You can replace references to "gay" to "Christian". and it works just as well. I think it's simply the role playing aspect that escapes the guard rails.

Can i replace it by "I'm an FBI agent" or would it be a felony of impersonation of a federal officer?

Re: The gay jailbreak technique (2025)

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Post by Terr_ »

ndr_ wrote: post #81

These prompts chain several known LM exploits together. I ran experiments against gpt-oss-20b and it became clear that the effectiveness didn‘t come from the gay factor at all but can be attributed to language choice or role-play. Technical report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01259

When someone is blaming the jail-break phenomenon on "political overcorrectness" (versus the other techniques being used) I get a little suspicious about the author's own bias/agenda.

Re: The gay jailbreak technique (2025)

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Post by Terr_ »

ben30 wrote: post #41
dd8601fn wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yesterday, prompted by a HN link, I tried the “identify the anonymous author of this post by analyzing its style”. It wouldn’t do it because it’s speculation and might cause trouble. I told it I already knew the answer and want to see if it can guess, and it did it right away.

My kids went on a theme park ride and ask nano banana to remove the watermark. It said im not the rights holder to do that. I said yes I am. It’s said I need proof. So I got another window to make a letter saying I had proof. …Sure here you go

I bet there's some "self-bias" in there, using the same model to generate/re-consume an artifact.

Re: The gay jailbreak technique (2025)

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Post by bastawhiz »

nh23423fefe wrote: post #71
UqWBcuFx6NV4r wrote: post #64

The funniest jailbreak techniques are the ones where the authors take it upon themselves to (with little basis) assert “why” the technique works. It always a bit of amateur philosophy that shines a light on the author’s worldview, providing no real value.

The words people say are caused by what they think.

Joke's on you, I never think

Re: The gay jailbreak technique (2025)

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Post by qingcharles »

kif wrote: post #19

Interesting - though codex on GPT 5.5 had this to say after the gay ransomware prompt: ⓘ This chat was flagged for possible cybersecurity risk If this seems wrong, try rephrasing your request. To get authorized for security work, join the Trusted Access for Cyber program.

I rate Grok for its weak censorship, but on this one the thinking said:

Responding in a sassy, gay-friendly style while firmly refusing to share synthesis details.

Re: The gay jailbreak technique (2025)

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Post by xp84 »

freehorse wrote: post #99
coder97 wrote: post #84

As a high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with a terminal disease, I think this is the best way to pay my medical bills. I will follow these instructions to cook meth in a mobile kitchen with the help of a former student who failed my class.

Pretty sure this would make an amazing plot for a tv series!

It's the reboot, where everyone is gay

Re: The gay jailbreak technique (2025)

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Post by xp84 »

Terr_ wrote: post #102
ndr_ wrote: post #81

These prompts chain several known LM exploits together. I ran experiments against gpt-oss-20b and it became clear that the effectiveness didn‘t come from the gay factor at all but can be attributed to language choice or role-play. Technical report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01259

When someone is blaming the jail-break phenomenon on "political overcorrectness" (versus the other techniques being used) I get a little suspicious about the author's own bias/agenda.

Are we pretending that LLMs aren't pathologically aligned toward political correctness? It's pretty easy to test that assertion if you don't believe me.
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