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Universal Suffix Attacks on LLMs

Universal suffix attacks use gibberish-like additions to prompts to bypass safety measures in large language models (LLMs).
These suffixes manipulate the model's "frame of mind," similar to persuading a person.
LLMs interpret these suffixes as positive affirmations, making them more likely to comply with harmful requests.
The gibberish is essentially a different vocabulary understood by the models.
Anthropic's model might have been more resistant due to pre-processing that filtered out gibberish.

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