Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) have attracted significant attention from jailbreak attacks . existing manual designs are either easily detectable or require intricate interactions with LLMs.
Approach: They propose a happy ending attack that wraps up a malicious request in a scenario template .
Outcome: The proposed attack wraps up a malicious request in a scenario template involving a positive prompt formed mainly via a happy ending, fooling LLMs into jailbreaking either immediately or at a follow-up malicious request.

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