Challenge: Existing methods for jailbreaking large-language models are limited by their limitations . authors present a mutation-based fuzzing technique that generates effective jailbreaking templates .
Approach: They propose a mutation-based fuzzing technique for efficiently finding effective jailbreaking templates that combine with harmful questions to generate harmful responses.
Outcome: The proposed technique achieves 95% attack success rates on public datasets for leading LLMs . it also shows impressive generalizability to unseen harmful questions and improves model defenses to prompt attacks.

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