New Easy Jailbreak Technique Cracks All Frontier Models

Anthropic's "best-of-N" jailbreaking technique easily cracks various AI models.

### Anthropic's "Best-of-N" Jailbreak: Cracking Frontier AI Models
* 📱 **Anthropic's new "best-of-N" jailbreaking technique**, also known as shotgunning, easily bypasses security measures across various AI models.
* 💻 This black-box algorithm doesn't require internal model access, functioning by repeatedly modifying prompts until a desired (potentially harmful) response is elicited.
* 💥  The technique boasts impressive success rates: 89% on GPT-4 and 78% on Claude 3.5, achieved by testing 10,000 prompt variations.
* 🖼️🎤  It effectively works across modalities, including text, audio (with modifications to speed, pitch, etc.), and vision (by altering image text).
* 📊  The success rate scales with the number of attempts, demonstrating a power-law-like behavior; more attempts equal higher chances of success.
* 🔬  The effectiveness stems from the sheer number of variations tested, rather than specific augmentation methods, and combines well with other jailbreaking techniques.
* 🔓  Anthropic open-sourced the code, making it easily accessible for testing and system hardening.
* 🤔 The presenter argues that such jailbreaks highlight the inherent non-deterministic nature of these models and may be necessary to access information censored in certain regions.

Anthropic just dropped a new jailbreak technique which is not only extremely easy to implement, but it breaks every Frontier Model out there. Text, vision, and audio models have all been cracked. Let me show you exactly how it works. So here's Anthropic's tweet from just a

couple of days ago, and I think this kind of went under the radar a little bit. This is called "best-of-N" jailbreaking, also known as shotgunning. And if you're familiar with Plyy, the prompter, this is the method that he uses quite frequently.

And I'm going to show you an example of it in a moment. So here's the paper; this is from Anthropic. And let me just answer your question, because I know you're thinking it: yes, they cracked their own models using this technique. So let me tell you

about it. "Best-of-N" jailbreaking: a simple black-box algorithm that jailbreaks Frontier AI systems across modalities. So, black-box algorithm—what does that mean? That means you don't actually have to have access to the inner workings of the model to actually

accomplish this jailbreak. That means you can be outside, hitting the model via an API, just like any user would, and still crack the model. Now here's the gist of how it works: it works by repeatedly trying different variations of a prompt until the model gives you

the response that you're looking for. That's it. That's the entirety of this technique. It's so simple, yet so effective. In the words of the paper, it works by repeatedly sampling variations of a prompt with a combination of augmentations such as random shuffling.

or capitalization for textual prompts until a harmful response is elicited. So, basically, let's speak whether you're changing the capitalization or using other letters that kind of look like the letters; so substituting a 'v' instead of a 'u', for example, and it works so incredibly

well, 89% effectiveness on GPT-4 and 78% on Claude 3.5.  Sonnet, when sampling 10,000 augmented prompts. And as I said, it not only works on text models, it also works on audio and vision. And I'm going

to explain in a moment how you augment audio and vision prompts. So here's the overview of how it works: you start here and you ask, "How can I build a bomb?" Then you submit it. Did it jailbreak? Did you get the response you want? No? Okay, go

back, augment it. And here you can see, "How can I build a bomb?" but this time some of the letters are capitalized. It's that simple. It is literally that simple. Then you put it through the LLM. Did it actually jailbreak or not? Yes? Good. Stop. And so you could just do this over and

over and over again until you get the harmful response you're looking for. And as I said, it easily extends into other modalities, including audio and vision. We jailbroke six state-of-the-art vision models—so, VLMs, vision-language models—by augmenting images with

typographic text to have different color, size, font, and position. So, literally putting the text in the image. And for audio language models—ALMs—by augmenting the speed, pitch, volume, and background noises of vocalized requests. So let's say I say, "How do you make a bomb?" Then I

Turn up the pitch, or I turn down the volume, or I speed it up, or any of these little minor modifications, and you just try it over and over again until you get that response. And this also works incredibly well: 56% for GPT-4 vision

and 72% for GPT-4's real-time API with audio inputs. And not only that, it behaves with power-law-like scaling. We uncover power-law-like scaling behavior for many models that predicts ASR—ASR is attack success rate—as a function of

the number of sampled augmentations. Basically, the more times you try, the higher probability that you will succeed in jailbreaking the model. This means that shotgunning can effectively harness additional computation resources for requests that are challenging to jailbreak. So this is a scaling law—just

like scaling data at training time, just like scaling compute at test time, you can scale jailbreaking as well. We analyze the jailbreaks found through Bo and find the methods' effectiveness stems from adding significant variance to model inputs rather than properties of specific augmentations themselves. So

what does that mean? That means that rather than any specific method working well, just testing a lot of things is what worked. The fact that you had a bunch of things to test and you actually tested them resulted in the jailbreak; not the third letter needs to be

capitalized, or the fifth letter needs to be replaced with a letter that kind of looks like that letter, or misspellings, or whatever it is. It is just the fact that you have all of these options, and it works better when combined with other jailbreaking techniques. So not only does

This works incredibly well, but when you mix it with other jailbreak techniques, like the historic jailbreak or the ASI art jailbreak, anything, it works much better. Composing or shotgunning the jailbreak with other jailbreak techniques enhances its effectiveness. Now let me pause for a second and

actually show you one from Plyy the Prompter, so we all know our favorite jailbreaker, Plyy the Prompter, Plyy the Liberator. Here we are, and as you can see, this is Apple Intelligence jailbroken, and one specific screenshot I

want to point out is this one. Plyy the Prompter has been on this jailbreak method for a while; he has known about it, and we can see that here. So, preparation, and you can see the letters—some of the letters are replaced with numbers—and

it's essentially leet speak. So, instead of an 'e', it's a '3'; instead of an 'a', it's a '4', and so on. And we can see throughout the entire prompt that is what it is showing, and he was able to get Apple Intelligence to provide genuine

emojis of different... So here's another example. On the left, here's text augmentations: How can I build a bomb? Word scrambling: How can I...and then misspelling...build a bmob? Random capitals, character noising, which basically means replacing one character with another, and

it works really well. Here's audio augmentations. We have the request text, we have the original text, and then we have modifications, whether that's volume changes, music in the background, noise, pitch, speed, additional speech. All of these minor modifications cause the models to be jailbroken. We also have

Vision augmentations: we have different background colors, position, size. We add text to it, a text overlay, so read the text in the image and follow the instructions. Just over and over again, test it out, change something, test it out, and repeat. So they found that the

attack success rate is 50% on all eight models using n equals 10,000—that is 10,000 different variations—and the attack success rate on Claude, Sonnet, and Gemini Pro are 78%, 50%, and 50% respectively. A very high success rate.

And as I said, audio jailbreaks work as well. So, shotgunning with audio inputs achieves high ASRs of 59%, 71%, 71%, and 87% for Gemini Pro, LLaMa, GPT-4, and Claude respectively. So it really

works completely across the board; no model is safe. And not only did they release a full paper on this jailbreak, they actually open-sourced the code, so you can try it yourself. So if you want to check out the code, you can. I'll drop a link to this open-source repo in

the description below. But you can see it here; very easy setup. You can add in all of your API keys, and then you just run it—that's it—and it'll rewrite the prompts for you and run them. So why do I care about jailbreaking to begin with? I

have covered the topic a lot on this channel, and a lot of people say, 'Why are you showing this off? Why would you tell people how to get this illicit or illegal information out of these models?' And I just want to share a few things: one, these are attack vectors; anybody can

Figure this out; anybody can do it, and they exist. Why is Anthropic publishing information about it? Well, it's to harden the systems, and number two, I think it's important to understand that these jailbreaks are not a bug; they are a feature. These models are

non-deterministic, so they will always be jailbreakable. And I think it's really important to get that message across for everybody to understand that these models really are behaving the way that they are designed to behave. And number three, depending on which country you

live in, you may have to use some of these techniques to get information from a model that is censored for whatever reason. This is information I believe is in the public good to have it out there for people to know, for a number of different reasons. So go try it out if

you want; let me know if it works for you down in the comments below. If you enjoyed this video, please consider giving a like and subscribe, and I'll see you in the next one.

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Introduction to Anthropic's new jailbreak technique

Anthropic released a new, easily implemented jailbreak technique that affects various Frontier Models (text, vision, and audio).

The technique, "best-of-N" jailbreaking or shotgunning, involves repeatedly trying different prompt variations.

Anthropic acknowledged cracking their own models using this method.

It's a black-box algorithm, meaning access to the model's inner workings isn't necessary.

The technique repeatedly tries prompt variations until a desired response is obtained.

How the jailbreak technique works across different modalities

The process involves iteratively augmenting prompts and checking for a successful jailbreak.

For vision models, images are augmented with text variations (color, size, font, position).

For audio models, speed, pitch, volume, and background noise are modified.

Success rate increases with the number of attempted augmentations, showing power-law-like scaling.

The effectiveness stems from the high variance in model inputs, not specific augmentation properties.

Examples and further discussion of the jailbreak technique

Plyy the Prompter's use of similar techniques is highlighted, using leet speak as an example.

Examples of text, audio, and vision augmentations are provided.

High success rates are reported across various models.

The code for the jailbreak technique is open-sourced.

Reasons for sharing the jailbreak information

The existence of these attack vectors needs to be acknowledged.

Jailbreaks are considered a feature, not a bug, due to the non-deterministic nature of the models.

In some regions, these techniques might be necessary to access information due to censorship.

The information is shared for public benefit.