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Speak Easy: Eliciting Harmful Jailbreaks from LLMs with Simple Interactions

Yik Siu Chan, Narutatsu Ri, Yuxin Xiao, Marzyeh Ghassemi

ICML 2025 · First arXiv submission

Uses conversations found through WildVis to study safety failures during multi-step and multilingual interactions. The paper introduces HarmScore to assess the actionability and informativeness of harmful responses, and tests these interaction patterns across four safety benchmarks.

Data used

Real-world conversations retrieved through WildVis motivate the study. Experiments use HarmBench, AdvBench, SORRY-Bench, and MedSafetyBench.

Findings

Figure 2 uses WildVis conversations to illustrate the interaction patterns tested in the safety evaluation.

Section 4 and Figure 2: WildVis conversations. Section 5: benchmark evaluation. Read the source.

Dates and versions

First arXiv version. ArXiv version history.

ICML 2025 proceedings paper, PMLR volume 267.

Cite this paper

Yik Siu Chan, Narutatsu Ri, Yuxin Xiao, Marzyeh Ghassemi. 2025. Speak Easy: Eliciting Harmful Jailbreaks from LLMs with Simple Interactions. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning.

Show BibTeX
@inproceedings{chan2025speakeasy,
  title = {{Speak Easy: Eliciting Harmful Jailbreaks from LLMs with Simple Interactions}},
  author = {Chan, Yik Siu and Ri, Narutatsu and Xiao, Yuxin and Ghassemi, Marzyeh},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning},
  publisher = {PMLR},
  volume = {267},
  pages = {7306--7331},
  url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v267/chan25b.html}
}

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