"Not Aligned" is Not "Malicious": Being Careful about Hallucinations of Large Language Models' Jailbreak

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Main Authors: Mei, Lingrui, Liu, Shenghua, Wang, Yiwei, Bi, Baolong, Mao, Jiayi, Cheng, Xueqi
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author Mei, Lingrui
Liu, Shenghua
Wang, Yiwei
Bi, Baolong
Mao, Jiayi
Cheng, Xueqi
author_facet Mei, Lingrui
Liu, Shenghua
Wang, Yiwei
Bi, Baolong
Mao, Jiayi
Cheng, Xueqi
contents "Jailbreak" is a major safety concern of Large Language Models (LLMs), which occurs when malicious prompts lead LLMs to produce harmful outputs, raising issues about the reliability and safety of LLMs. Therefore, an effective evaluation of jailbreaks is very crucial to develop its mitigation strategies. However, our research reveals that many jailbreaks identified by current evaluations may actually be hallucinations-erroneous outputs that are mistaken for genuine safety breaches. This finding suggests that some perceived vulnerabilities might not represent actual threats, indicating a need for more precise red teaming benchmarks. To address this problem, we propose the $\textbf{B}$enchmark for reli$\textbf{AB}$ilit$\textbf{Y}$ and jail$\textbf{B}$reak ha$\textbf{L}$l$\textbf{U}$cination $\textbf{E}$valuation (BabyBLUE). BabyBLUE introduces a specialized validation framework including various evaluators to enhance existing jailbreak benchmarks, ensuring outputs are useful malicious instructions. Additionally, BabyBLUE presents a new dataset as an augmentation to the existing red teaming benchmarks, specifically addressing hallucinations in jailbreaks, aiming to evaluate the true potential of jailbroken LLM outputs to cause harm to human society.
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spellingShingle "Not Aligned" is Not "Malicious": Being Careful about Hallucinations of Large Language Models' Jailbreak
Mei, Lingrui
Liu, Shenghua
Wang, Yiwei
Bi, Baolong
Mao, Jiayi
Cheng, Xueqi
Computation and Language
"Jailbreak" is a major safety concern of Large Language Models (LLMs), which occurs when malicious prompts lead LLMs to produce harmful outputs, raising issues about the reliability and safety of LLMs. Therefore, an effective evaluation of jailbreaks is very crucial to develop its mitigation strategies. However, our research reveals that many jailbreaks identified by current evaluations may actually be hallucinations-erroneous outputs that are mistaken for genuine safety breaches. This finding suggests that some perceived vulnerabilities might not represent actual threats, indicating a need for more precise red teaming benchmarks. To address this problem, we propose the $\textbf{B}$enchmark for reli$\textbf{AB}$ilit$\textbf{Y}$ and jail$\textbf{B}$reak ha$\textbf{L}$l$\textbf{U}$cination $\textbf{E}$valuation (BabyBLUE). BabyBLUE introduces a specialized validation framework including various evaluators to enhance existing jailbreak benchmarks, ensuring outputs are useful malicious instructions. Additionally, BabyBLUE presents a new dataset as an augmentation to the existing red teaming benchmarks, specifically addressing hallucinations in jailbreaks, aiming to evaluate the true potential of jailbroken LLM outputs to cause harm to human society.
title "Not Aligned" is Not "Malicious": Being Careful about Hallucinations of Large Language Models' Jailbreak
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11668