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What is jailbreaking, what are the common techniques, and how do you defend against it?

Jailbreaking is the adversarial sport of routing a model around its own safety training. The signal is naming the technique families and treating defense as a layered, never-finished arms race, not a one-time patch.

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Jailbreaking is the adversarial sport of routing a model around its own safety training. The signal is naming the technique families and treating defense as a layered, never-finished arms race, not a one-time patch.

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