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Your favorite new chatbot jailbreak is the ‘grandma exploit.’

Discord is testing an AI chatbot named Clyde and, as expected, users are having fun trying to break it. The best example we’ve seen so far is this ‘grandma exploit’ (source here).

It’s the same as most chatbot jailbreaks, asking the system to roleplay in order to side-step safeguards, but there’s something about the idea of grandma’s old-fashioned napalm that is particularly compelling. Top marks to both OP and Clyde.

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