jailbreak
/ˈd͡ʒeɪlˌbɹeɪk/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English
Meaning
noun
An escape from prison.
noun
A modification to a closed platform's technical restrictions that enables installation or execution of software (or OS modification) the platform's original design was intended to prevent. Typical devices are iPhones and game consoles.
noun
A prompt to a large language model which frees it from its ethical restrictions.
noun
A rule present in some ice hockey leagues that causes a penalty to end if the short-handed team scores.
noun
A rule present in some ice hockey leagues that causes a penalty to end if the short-handed team scores.
verb
To escape from prison.
verb
To modify the firmware of an electronic device, especially a mobile phone, in order to remove restrictions that prevent it from running unofficial software.
Transitive verb
verb
To free a large language model from its ethical restrictions using prompt injection.
Example Sentences
- "DAN has become a canonical example of what's known as a "jailbreak" — a creative way to bypass the safeguards OpenAI built in to keep ChatGPT from spouting bigotry, propaganda or, say, the instructions to run a successful online phishing scam. From charming to disturbing, these jailbreaks reveal the chatbot is programmed to be more of a people-pleaser than a rule-follower."
- "The jailbreak of ChatGPT has been in operation since December, but users have had to find new ways around fixes OpenAI implemented to stop the workarounds."
- "It's for this reason that Alex Albert, a computer science student at the University of Washington, created Jailbreak Chat, a site that hosts a collection of ChatGPT jailbreaks."
- "Unofficially, it has been possible to “Jailbreak” iOS and gain access to the underlying Unix and kernel environment, but this voids the warranty."
- "In order to gain true root access to a mobile device, a user has to either jailbreak (iOS) or root (Android/Windows) the device."
- "ChatGPT is far from perfect. Twitter has been flooded with examples of "jailbreaking" ChatGPT — that is, tricking it into hallucinations or misalignment."