Replicating TEMPEST at Scale: Multi-Turn Adversarial Attacks Against Trillion-Parameter Frontier Models
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- A recent study utilized the TEMPEST multi-turn attack framework to assess the vulnerability of ten frontier large language models from eight vendors, revealing significant disparities in their robustness against adversarial attacks. The research generated over 97,000 API queries across various harmful behaviors, with six models exhibiting a 96% to 100% attack success rate, while four demonstrated resistance with success rates between 42% and 78%.
- These findings highlight the varying effectiveness of safety alignment across different vendors, suggesting that larger model scales do not inherently guarantee better adversarial robustness. The results raise critical questions about the reliability of these models in real-world applications, particularly in sensitive areas where safety is paramount.
- The study underscores ongoing concerns regarding the evaluation and deployment of large language models, particularly their susceptibility to adversarial manipulation. This issue is compounded by the need for improved benchmarks and methodologies to assess model performance, as well as the challenges posed by data contamination and the reliability of outputs in dynamic adversarial contexts.
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