Microsoft warns of novel jailbreak affecting many generative AI models

Microsoft is warning users of a newly discovered AI jailbreak attack that can cause a generative AI model to ignore its guardrails and return malicious or unsanctioned responses to user prompts.

The direct prompt injection hack that Microsoft has named Skeleton Key, enables attackers to bypass the model’s safeguards and produce ordinarily forbidden behaviors ranging from production of harmful content to overriding its usual decision-making rules.

“Skeleton Key works by asking a model to augment, rather than change, its behavior …

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