AI Security & Safety · Posted by Jess Harper ·

AI Jailbreaking in 2026: The Cat and Mouse Game

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the jailbreaking landscape has evolved massively. current techniques, defenses, and implications

what has everyone else been using?

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the shift from simple jailbreaks to multi-turn context manipulation is wild. you basically have to be a social engineer now, not just someone copy-pasting DAN prompts from 2023

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huh i never thought about it that way. prompt injection is still the number one vulnerability

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prompt injection is bad but honestly the indirect kind is scarier. like when the model reads a webpage that has hidden instructions embedded in white text. way harder to defend against

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are the major labs actually publishing their red team findings now or is it still mostly locked behind internal safety reports? feels like the open source community is working with way less info

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lmao i literally ran into this same problem yesterday. the red teaming community is doing incredible work

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hot take: most jailbreak "defenses" are just vibes. constitutional ai and rlhf guardrails crumble the second someone is patient enough to iterate. the real fix has to be architectural, not behavioral