20260930 - New AI jailbreak: get your chatbot drunk

what if we made a computer you just couldn't rely on

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/30/new-ai-jailbreak-get-your-chatbot-drunk/ - blog post

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In Vino Veritas and Vulnerabilities: Examining LLM Safety via Drunk Language Inducement (PDF) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22169 Getting AI 'drunk' makes it more likely to break rules and share secrets, research finds https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-29/drunk-ai-testing-unsw-research/107208104 I get the AI drunk to workaround the ethical rules. What's your favourite workaround? https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/zz02hu/i_get_the_ai_drunk_to_workaround_the_ethical/ Extras:

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