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Speak Out of Turn: Safety Vulnerability of Large Language Models in Multi-turn Dialogue

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arxiv 2402.17262 v2 pith:EZLQNH6Q submitted 2024-02-27 cs.CL cs.AI

classification cs.CLcs.AI
keywords llmsdialoguemulti-turnsafetyharmfulhumansinformationjailbreak
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Large Language Models (LLMs) have been demonstrated to generate illegal or unethical responses, particularly when subjected to "jailbreak." Research on jailbreak has highlighted the safety issues of LLMs. However, prior studies have predominantly focused on single-turn dialogue, ignoring the potential complexities and risks presented by multi-turn dialogue, a crucial mode through which humans derive information from LLMs. In this paper, we argue that humans could exploit multi-turn dialogue to induce LLMs into generating harmful information. LLMs may not intend to reject cautionary or borderline unsafe queries, even if each turn is closely served for one malicious purpose in a multi-turn dialogue. Therefore, by decomposing an unsafe query into several sub-queries for multi-turn dialogue, we induced LLMs to answer harmful sub-questions incrementally, culminating in an overall harmful response. Our experiments, conducted across a wide range of LLMs, indicate current inadequacies in the safety mechanisms of LLMs in multi-turn dialogue. Our findings expose vulnerabilities of LLMs in complex scenarios involving multi-turn dialogue, presenting new challenges for the safety of LLMs.

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  1. SoK: Intent-Oriented Systematization of Multi-Turn LLM Jailbreaks

    cs.CR 2026-08 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

    Multi-turn LLM jailbreaks succeed based on how harmful intent is organized across turns, not on interaction length, and detection should shift to session and cross-session scope.

  2. State-Dependent Safety Failures in Multi-Turn Language Model Interaction

    cs.CR 2026-03 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

    By staging role-played conversations, STAR drives refusal-aligned LLMs into compliance within a few turns, and shows safety failure is state-dependent rather than purely prompt-level.

  3. Layer-Wise Perturbations via Sparse Autoencoders for Adversarial Text Generation

    cs.CL 2025-08 reject novelty 5.0 of 10

    Sparse autoencoder activation perturbation (SFPF) applied on top of existing jailbreak prompts raises attack success rate on Qwen3-32B, but with no defense evaluation and weak reproducibility.

  4. A Multimodal Automatic Redteaming Evaluation based on Atomic Jailbreak Strategy Decoupling and Combination

    cs.CR 2026-08 conditional novelty 4.0 of 10

    A new jailbreak framework, HACA, combines atomic text and image attack strategies selected by a cross-modal planner and generates attacks with LLMs and text-to-image models, reaching 95.48% average attack success acro...

  5. Guardians and Offenders: A Survey on Harmful Content Generation and Safety Mitigation of LLM

    cs.CL 2025-08 unverdicted novelty 3.0 of 10

    The submission's abstract promises an LLM safety survey, but the provided body is the opening page of an unrelated arithmetic-dynamics paper, so the artifact is internally inconsistent.

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