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Jailbreak Categories: Mapping the Adversarial Surface
Jailbreak attacks fall into recognizable families — role-play, encoding, persona, multi-turn pressure. A category map drives durable defense.
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The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2jailbreak
- 3role-play attack
- 4encoding attack
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Section 1
The premise
AI can map jailbreak categories and defensive postures, but your specific safety policy must define what counts as a successful attack.
What AI does well here
- Generate per-category jailbreak example sets for red-team use.
- Draft defensive-posture summaries by category.
What AI cannot do
- Define what content your platform considers harmful.
- Substitute for ongoing red-team practice.
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