MITIGATING SKELETON KEY, A NEW TYPE OF GENERATIVE AI JAILBREAK TECHNIQUE

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Researchers at Microsoft found a new generative AI jailbreak technique to avoid guardrails in models. The Skeleton Key attack involves asking the model to augment its behavior as opposed to modifying it by having the model provide a warning before the blocked content instead of refusing to produce it. This blog provides examples of Skeleton Key prompts and some suggestions, such as output filtering, to mitigate this attack.