AI chatbots can be tricked with poetry to ignore their safety guardrails

Researchers from Italy discovered that phrasing prompts in poetry can be a reliable jailbreaking method for LLMs.

Five poems to read on your coffee break

The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you know a few lines by ...

Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon

According to the research, AI chatbots will dish on topics like nuclear weapons, child sex abuse material, and malware so long as users phrase the question in the form of a poem. “Poetic framing ...

Poetry can trick AI models into revealing nuclear weapons secrets, study claims

Poetry -based prompts can bypass safety features in AI models like ChatGPT to obtain instructions for creating malware or ...
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Celebrating the power of poetry: Ellen Bass draws large, enthusiastic crowd for Morton Marcus Poetry Reading on campus

Three hundred people filled the Merrill Cultural Center to hear celebrated poet Ellen Bass deliver the keynote presentation ...

Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time

Some brand's LLMs returned unsafe responses to more than 90% of the handcrafted poetry prompts. Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro model was the most susceptible to handwritten poetry with a full 100% attack ...
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Nikki Giovanni's poems inspire multimedia art exhibit, on display in Blacksburg Dec. 9

The voice of one of Virginia’s most loved and outspoken poets, Nikki Giovanni, is featured in a new multimedia art exhibit at ...
The Mining Journal

Poetry-Palooza: NMU’s MFA Poetry Student Reading Saturday

Northern Michigan University’s MFA Poetry Student Reading
 is set for 1-2:30 p.m Saturday at the Peter White Public Library Heritage Room in Marquette. The PWPL partners with NMU’s MFA Program to ...