Unveiling Safety Vulnerabilities of Large Language Models
Authors: name: George Kour; name: Marcel Zalmanovici; name: Naama Zwerdling; name: Esther Goldbraich; name: Ora Nova Fandina; name: Ateret Anaby-Tavor; name: Orna Raz; name: Eitan Farchi
Published: 2023-11-07 16:50:33

Abstract: As large language models become more prevalent, their possible harmful or
inappropriate responses are a cause for concern. This paper introduces a unique
dataset containing adversarial examples in the form of questions, which we call
AttaQ, designed to provoke such harmful or inappropriate responses. We assess
the efficacy of our dataset by analyzing the vulnerabilities of various models
when subjected to it. Additionally, we introduce a novel automatic approach for
identifying and naming vulnerable semantic regions - input semantic areas for
which the model is likely to produce harmful outputs. This is achieved through
the application of specialized clustering techniques that consider both the
semantic similarity of the input attacks and the harmfulness of the model's
responses. Automatically identifying vulnerable semantic regions enhances the
evaluation of model weaknesses, facilitating targeted improvements to its
safety mechanisms and overall reliability.