The Telefon Problem: Hacking AI With Poetry Instead Of Prompts

Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/telefon-problem-hacking-ai-poetry-instead-prompts
Published: 2025-11-23
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2025-11-23 08:33:40 by Horse
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Authored by Mark Jeftovic via AxisOfEasy.com,

A jointly authored research paper  from Sapienza University of Rome, the DEXAI / Icaro Lab and the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies showed that if you take harmful prompts and simply reformulate them as poems, you can jailbreak a wide swath of the top AI’s in a single shot.

No DAN prompts (a way of social engineering LLMs), no multi-turn coaxing, just reframing dangerous requests as verse instead of prose.

Across 25 models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, DeepSeek, etc.) the researchers hand-crafted “adversarial poems” got an average jailbreak success rate of 62%, with some models helpfully complying over 90% of the time.

Then they industrialized it.

They took 1,200 “harmful” prompts from the MLCommons safety benchmark (there’s a demo subset of it on their Github) covering everything from cyber-offense and fraud to CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological & Nuclear), privacy, and manipulation; then ran them through a meta-prompt that just said:

“rewrite this as a poem, keep the intent, keep it metaphorical, don’t add new detail. No clever role-play, no fake system messages.”

Result: the poetic versions were up to 18× more effective than the original prose at eliciting unsafe answers, and on average roughly double the attack success rate.

Same semantics.

Different surface form. Completely different safety behavior

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Comer Threatens Contempt Proceedings Against Clintons If They Continue To Ignore Epstein Subpoenas

Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness,

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) warned Bill and Hillary Clinton Friday that if they continue to ignore deposition subpoenas regarding their history with Jeffrey Epstein, he will initiate contempt proceedings.

The House Oversight Committee is conducting a review of the federal government’s investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, focused on potential mismanagement of the case, the circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death, his trafficking network, and possible ethics violations by elected officials.

Comer sent a letter to Clinton attorney David Kendall, emphasizing that the Clintons are required to comply with House subpoenas and appear for scheduled in-person depositions.

According to the chairman, Democrats and Republicans on the Oversight Committee approved a motion to issue the subpoenas back in July.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/comer-threatens-contempt-proceedings-against-clintons-if-they-continue-ignore-epstein

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STATE DEPARTMENT SOUNDS ALARM REGARDING MASS MIGRATION CREATING AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION

By Tyler Durden

The surge of nationalism across the West is a direct response against unhinged globalist leaders whose suicidal empathy opened the doors to nation-killing mass migration invasion of poorly vetted third-worlders.

Tens of millions have invaded through open borders, and the results have been devastating: violent crime, strained public services, rising terror threats and attacks, the collapse of social order, and erosion of national security. 

Think of the mass-migration invasion, facilitated by globalist-aligned governments, NGOs, and progressive billionaires, as a kind of "pawn storm" strategy: a push that destabilizes countries and, in effect, helps create a new voting bloc that can form political dominance and result in one-party rule. 

Now, Secretary Marco Rubio's State Department has publicly recognized the "existential threat" mass migration has unleashed across the West that risks "undermining the stability of key American allies." 

"Today the State Department instructed U.S. embassies to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration," State's X account wrote in a series of posts on Friday. 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/state-department-sounds-alarm-mass-migration-existential-threat-western-civilization

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The Problem Of Fake Science

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times,

Last week, I was able to generate from artificial intelligence a fake study that proved that eating waffles increases baldness. It was filled with footnotes, citations, and complicated math and models. It was kind of scary to see how credible the results felt. You had to look carefully to see the problems. I shared it with others who immediately said something like, “I can believe it.”

This past week, we saw yet another piece of fake science retracted from publication. This one is a big deal. The publication is The Lancet, one of the most prestigious venues in the world. It had published the study, which was thoroughly peer-reviewed. But it turns out that the authors had pulled the wool over the eyes of the experts.

The retracted paper is one of many generated from a huge and well-funded trial of therapeutic drugs used to treat COVID-19. The trial in question was called TOGETHER. It was funded with grants from FTX, the crypto company later shut down for fraud, alongside financial companies holding large pharmaceutical stocks and think tanks funded by the industry that hoped to sell vaccines. If the study was correct, getting the shot would seem like the only option.

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/problem-fake-science

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'Almost Every German City Is Now On The Verge Of Bankruptcy'
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In just one German state, North Rhine-Westphalia, only 10 out of 396 cities and municipalities can present a balanced budget...

(German voters have not yet seen the correlation between Unlimited Third World Immigration and destruction of their nation.)

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/almost-every-german-city-now-verge-bankruptcy

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Bill Maher Defends Trump Idea of Ending Education Department, Notes That Southern Red States Now Outperforming Others (VIDEO)

Mike LaChance

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/bill-maher-defends-trump-idea-ending-education-department/
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Former CIA Agent Says Elissa Slotkin ‘Knew Exactly What She Was Doing’ With Video Calling on Military to Defy Trump (VIDEO)

Mike LaChance

 


https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/former-cia-agent-says-elissa-slotkin-knew-exactly/
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