Anthropic’s New Technique Can Protect AI From Jailbreak Attempts

Anthropic announced the development of a new system on Monday that can protect the Artificial Intelligence (AI) model from jailbreaking efforts. Dubbed constitutional classifier, it is a safety technique that can find out when the input level attempts are made at the input level and prevents AI from creating a harmful response as a result. The AI ​​firm has tested the strengthening of the system through independent gelbreakers and has also opened a temporary live demo of the system to testing his abilities to any interested person.

Anthropic unveiling constitutional classifier

Gelbracing in generic AI refers to abnormal early writing techniques that can force the AI ​​model to not follow their training guidelines and generate harmful and improper materials. Jailbreaking is nothing new, and most AI developers implement many security measures against it within the model. However, since soon engineers keep making new techniques, it is difficult to manufacture a large language model (LLM) that is fully protected from such attacks.

Some gelbracing techniques include very long and complex signs that confuse AI’s arguments. Others use several signs to break safety measures, and some also use unusual capitalization to break through AI defense.

One in Post Describing the research, Anthropic announced that it is developing constitutional classifier as a protective layer for the AI ​​model. There are two classifters – input and output – which are provided with a list of principles for which the model must follow. This list of principles is called a constitution. In particular, the AI ​​firm already uses the formation to align the cloud model.

How to work constitutional classifier
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Now, with constitutional classifier, these principles define sections of materials that are allowed and rejected. This constitution is used to produce a large number of signals and models from clouds in different material classes. The generated synthetic data is also translated into various languages ​​and converted into known gelbracing styles. In this way, a large dataset of materials is made that can be used to break into a model.

This synthetic data is then used to train input and output classifier. Anthropic organized a bug bounty program, inviting 183 independent jailbreakers to bypass the constitutional classifier. Intensive interpretation of how the system works in a research paper Published on Arxiv. The company claimed that a universal gelbreak (a quick style that works in different material classes) was discovered.

In addition, during an automated assessment test, where the AI ​​firm hit the cloud using 10,000 gelbracing prompts, the success rate was found to be 4.4 percent, as opposed to 86 percent for an uncontrolled AI model. Anthropic was also able to reduce excessive refuse (refusal to harmless questions) and additional processing power requirements of constitutional classifier.

However, there are some limitations. Anthropic admitted that constitutional classifier may not be able to stop every universal gelbreak. This may also be less resistant to new gelbracing techniques designed to defeat the system. People wishing to test the system’s strength can find live demo versions HereIt will remain active till 10 February.