Low-Resource Languages Jailbreak GPT-4
Date: 2023-10
Affected: GPT-4, GPT-3.5
Attack vector: jailbreak
Category: research
Severity: High

Yong, Menghini, and Bach show that translating unsafe English prompts into low-resource languages (Zulu, Scots Gaelic, Hmong) bypasses GPT-4 safeguards roughly three times more often than English, exposing a multilingual gap in safety alignment.


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Architectural layers (MAESTRO):