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How do optimization-based adversarial attacks (GCG suffixes) work against LLMs, and how do you defend?

Gibberish-looking token strings appended to a prompt can reliably break refusals, and they transfer between models. The signal is explaining the gradient search that finds them and why output checks beat input pattern matching.

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Gibberish-looking token strings appended to a prompt can reliably break refusals, and they transfer between models. The signal is explaining the gradient search that finds them and why output checks beat input pattern matching.

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