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Blessin Varkey
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3414
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Summary

The advancement and widespread integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, GPT-4, Claude, Google's Bard, Anthropic, and Llama have led to significant ethical and security concerns, particularly regarding the concept of "jailbreaking." This term, borrowed from the world of smartphones, refers to bypassing built-in safeguards of LLMs to manipulate them into producing harmful or inappropriate content using techniques such as adversarial prompts. These vulnerabilities are exploited through methods like prompt injection, prompt leaking, and roleplay jailbreaks, posing risks to data security and operational integrity across industries. As LLMs become more central to various applications, understanding these threats and implementing robust defenses—such as red teaming, AI hardening, and continuous security education—becomes crucial to safeguard their usage and maintain trust in AI systems.