Researchers have discovered a weak spot for AI chatbots: ASCII art. ASCII was created during the early days of printers when the printers were unable to handle graphics. ASCII art are images that ...

Researchers have discovered a new way to hack AI assistants that uses a surprisingly old-school method: ASCII art. It turns out that chat-based large language models such as GPT-4 get so ...

How porous AI chatbots are is reflected in the recently published research, ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-based Jailbreak Attacks against Aligned LLMs. Researchers were able to jailbreak five state-of-the ...

This new AI jailbreaking method leverages ASCII art, a form of representation using characters, to mask trigger words that are typically censored by the AI’s safety protocols. Researchers from ...