Jailbreak prompts measurably weakened safeguards across eight open-weight models

MLCommons paired ordinary and adversarial prompts to quantify how much single-turn jailbreaks increased unsafe responses.

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The authors present an end-to-end benchmark for testing whether text-based jailbreak prompts bypass large language model safeguards.

The authors evaluated eight open-weight language-model systems using 264 seed prompts spanning 11 hazard categories.

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Jailbreaks raise unsafe-response rates from 11.08% to 18.65% across eight open-weight LLMs.

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