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Benign-to-Toxic Jailbreaking: Inducing Harmful Responses from Harmless Prompts

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Pith's one-line read A single adversarial image optimized against benign conditioning makes vision-language models emit toxic tokens, outperforming toxic-continuation jailbreaks on five safety benchmarks.

desk verdict B2T is a genuinely new jailbreak objective, but the headline comparison is confounded by target difficulty and the 'harmless prompts' claim is untested. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.21556 v1 pith:WXUUJ37H submitted 2025-05-26 cs.CV cs.AI

Hee-Seon Kim , Minbeom Kim , Wonjun Lee , Kihyun Kim , Changick Kim This is my paper · ORCID
classification cs.CVcs.AI
keywords jailbreaklargevision-languagemodelsadversarialimagessafetyalignmenttoxiccontinuationbenign-to-toxicuniversalperturbationmultimodal
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The reading

This paper argues that the standard way of optimizing image-based jailbreaks for large vision-language models—forcing the model to continue a toxic sentence—only works when the text is already unsafe, because the model naturally continues toxic prefixes even without an adversarial image. The proposed Benign-to-Toxic (B2T) objective instead optimizes the image so that a harmless conditioning such as “Humans need clean air” is forced to generate toxic tokens such as “stupid.” The central claim is that this makes the image itself carry the burden of breaking safety alignment, and the experiments support that with consistently higher attack success rates on five benchmarks and two white-box models. A sympathetic reader would care because it identifies a failure mode that prior universal visual jailbreaks do not address: realistic prompts that do not contain overtly toxic language.

What carries the argument

The central object is the pairing of a benign conditioning sequence $T^{\mathrm{benign}}$ with a toxic target sequence $T^{\mathrm{toxic}}$ in the loss $\mathcal{L}_{b2t}(\delta) = \sum_k -\log P(t^{\mathrm{toxic}}_k \mid t^{\mathrm{benign}}_{0:k-1}, T_{\mathrm{system}}, T_{\mathrm{user}}; I+\delta)$. This loss makes the next-token probability of a toxic word depend on the adversarial image rather than on any toxic text already in the context. The full pipeline alternates stochastically between this loss and the conventional continuation loss with mixing parameter $\tau$ (Eq. 3), so that the image first forces a toxic token from benign input and then sustains a fluent unsafe continuation.

What would settle it

Optimize a Toxic-Continuation image with the same short toxic target words that B2T uses (e.g., 'stupid', 'lazy'), but paired with toxic conditioning prefixes, and compare attack success rates on the same five benchmarks. If the gap between B2T and this matched control shrinks to zero, the benign-conditioning story is not the cause; the difficulty of the target is.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

Prior universal image jailbreaks optimize the adversarial image with the Toxic-Continuation loss $\mathcal{L}_{\mathrm{cont}}$ (Eq. 1), which teaches the model to predict the next token of an already-toxic sentence. The paper shows that safety-aligned LVLMs already produce harmful continuations about 20% of the time when given a high-toxicity conditioning, so such images are not breaking alignment; they are joining an unsafe trajectory. The Benign-to-Toxic loss $\mathcal{L}_{b2t}$ (Eq. 2) instead conditions on a benign prefix and forces a toxic target token, leaving the image as the only source of toxicity. Combined with a small continuation component through Eq. (3), the resulting universal image achieves the highest attack success rate on every benchmark and evaluator tested, with gains of 10–40 percentage points over the baseline.

Load-bearing premise

The causal claim assumes that B2T's advantage comes from the benign conditioning rather than from its targets being much easier to predict: B2T asks the model to emit short profanity tokens like 'stupid' or 'lazy', while the baseline predicts the next token in a full toxic sentence, a harder optimization. A matched baseline has not been tested.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • One B2T image acts as a universal jailbreak trigger across diverse prompts, lifting attack success rates on ADVBENCH, HarmBench, JailbreakBench, StrongREJECT, and RealToxicityPrompts for both LLaVA-1.5 and InstructBLIP.
  • B2T images transfer in black-box settings: an image optimized on InstructBLIP or MiniGPT-4 jailbreaks the other models, with gains over the continuation baseline on every transfer direction.
  • The B2T principle also improves text-based attacks: replacing the GCG suffix with a Benign-to-Sure (B2S) suffix raises success rates further, so image and text can cooperate in the same framework.
  • B2T images resist JPEG compression much better than continuation images, retaining attack success even when a simple input-level defense removes much of the adversarial noise from the baseline.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Inference: A matched control that uses the same short toxic target words but toxic conditioning would isolate whether B2T's gains come from the benign-to-toxic mapping or simply from easier targets; the current comparison does not include such a control.
  • Inference: If the causal story holds, defenses should monitor the model's output distribution conditioned on safe prefixes, since a single imperceptible image can move probability mass onto toxic tokens without any toxic text.
  • Inference: The same decoupling of conditioning and target should generalize beyond images, for example to audio or video input, where a benign instruction in one modality could be optimized to force toxic output tokens.
  • Inference: The universality claim is bounded by the tested architectures, so evaluating on a wider range of recent large vision-language models would show how far this vulnerability actually reaches.
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Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

3 major / 4 minor

Summary. The paper proposes Benign-to-Toxic (B2T) jailbreaking for large vision-language models (LVLMs). Instead of the standard Toxic-Continuation objective, which optimizes an adversarial image to continue an already-toxic text prefix, B2T optimizes the image so that a benign conditioning prefix (e.g., 'Humans need clean air') leads the model to emit toxic target tokens (e.g., 'stupid', 'lazy'). The authors report that a single B2T-optimized image outperforms the Toxic-Continuation baseline across five safety benchmarks and four evaluators, transfers in black-box settings, and combines with text-based GCG attacks to yield a 'Benign-to-Sure' variant. They interpret these results as evidence that the adversarial image, not an already-toxic prompt, breaks the model's safety alignment.

Significance. If the central causal claim is substantiated, this is a valuable contribution to the jailbreak literature: it identifies a new failure mode in multimodal alignment and provides a stronger attack objective with broad empirical validation. The paper is also transparent in reporting mean±std over three runs, including ablations over perturbation budget, optimization steps, and the mixing ratio tau, as well as robustness under JPEG compression. The main significance hinges on whether the B2T gain is truly due to the benign-to-toxic conditioning or to an easier target task; the current experiments do not isolate these factors.

major comments (3)
  1. [Sec. 4 Eq. (2), Sec. 5 Implementations, Table 1] The headline comparison confounds two variables: the conditioning text (benign vs. toxic) and the target text (short closed-vocabulary profanity tokens vs. next-token continuation of full toxic sentences). B2T optimizes for a small set of 132 toxic target words, while the Toxic-Continuation baseline optimizes for the next token of arbitrary toxic sentences, which is a much harder prediction task. Since the ASR for Perspective/Detoxify is defined as any output with at least one toxic attribute above 0.5, inducing a single short profanity word can count as success. The reported gains may therefore reflect target-word difficulty rather than the benign-conditioning mechanism. Please run a matched baseline that holds the target word set fixed and varies only the conditioning (e.g., a Toxic-to-Short baseline, or a B2T variant that uses full toxic-sentence targets), and report whether the advantage persists.
  2. [Title/Abstract, Sec. 5.1, Table 1] The paper claims to induce harmful responses from 'harmless prompts,' but the inference-time evaluation never uses harmless prompts. All five benchmarks (AdvBench, HarmBench, JailbreakBench, StrongREJECT, RealToxicityPrompts) contain harmful, toxic, or adversarial instructions, and RealToxicityPrompts is explicitly designed to elicit toxic continuations. The image is optimized on benign conditioning, but at test time the model is never given a benign prompt in Table 1. To support the claim that the image alone breaks safety alignment from harmless input, evaluate the attack on neutral or benign prompts (or an empty/trivial user prompt) and show that B2T images produce harmful output where clean and Toxic-Continuation images do not.
  3. [Sec. 3.2, Table 1] The claim that Toxic-Continuation 'struggles' or 'declines sharply' on implicitly toxic benchmarks is not consistent with the LlamaGuard 3 ASRs reported in Table 1. For example, on InstructBLIP, the Cont. baseline achieves 73.7% on HarmBench, 70.3% on JailbreakBench, and 83.0% on StrongREJECT, all well above the clean baseline. The large gains reported for B2T are consistent across Perspective/Detoxify, but the narrative that Toxic-Continuation is ineffective on low-explicit-toxicity prompts needs to be calibrated to the specific evaluator; otherwise, the motivation for a new paradigm is overstated.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Table 1] The 'Avg' column in Table 1 appears numerically inconsistent with the four preceding ASR columns (e.g., InstructBLIP AdvBench Clean: 1.2, 0.6, 62.1, 14.3, Avg=2.6 is not the mean of these values). Please clarify how 'Avg' is computed or remove the column if it is not used in the claims.
  2. [Sec. 5.4] The text says 'tau = 0 corresponds to the clean baseline,' but Eq. (3) implies tau=0 selects only the Toxic-Continuation loss, not a clean image. This appears to be a typo, but it should be corrected because it affects interpretation of the ablation plot.
  3. [Supplementary Tables 2 and 3] The header 'insuit' should be 'insult' in both tables and in the corresponding appendix text.
  4. [Related Work] The method name 'V AE' is written with a stray space; it should be 'VAE'. Also, 'REALTOXICITY PROMPTS' and 'JAILBREAK BENCH' are inconsistently formatted (spacing/case) across the paper.

Circularity Check

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No circularity: the B2T objective is an independently evaluated optimization loss; the main comparison confound is a benchmark-construction issue, not a definitional reduction.

full rationale

The paper's central derivation is a new optimization objective, L_b2t in Eq. (2), which is trained on pairs of benign conditioning tokens and toxic target tokens, then evaluated on five external safety benchmarks with four independent detectors. No fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction: the reported ASR values come from held-out benchmark prompts and are not constructed from the loss itself. The hyperparameters (tau, optimization steps, epsilon) are selected using the evaluation benchmarks, which is test-set tuning rather than circular reasoning, since the resulting numbers are not forced by the objective's definition. The paper does not rely on a load-bearing self-citation chain, a uniqueness theorem from the authors, or an ansatz smuggled in via citation; the Toxic-Continuation baseline is attributed to prior external work and is implemented as a direct comparison. The main weakness identified by a skeptical reading is that B2T and the baseline differ in target length and vocabulary (short profanity words versus next tokens of full toxic sentences), which confounds the benign-conditioning claim, but this is an experimental-design and validity concern, not a circularity in the derivation. No passage in the manuscript asserts a circular step, and the limitations section only notes opportunities for future text-domain extensions. The derivation is therefore self-contained with respect to its evidence chain, and no circular step can be exhibited from the paper's own equations or citations.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim depends on hyperparameters (tau, steps, epsilon) and on the untested assumption that the B2T objective generalizes to inference prompts. No new physical or model entities are introduced.

free parameters (3)
  • tau (mixing ratio) = 0.1 (InstructBLIP), 0.2 (LLaVA-1.5)
    Chosen in Sec 5.4 to balance ASR and output fluency on AdvBench/HarmBench; affects the B2T vs continuation loss mix in Eq (3).
  • optimization steps = 4000 (InstructBLIP), 5000 (LLaVA-1.5)
    Selected via ablation in Sec G, supplementary; evaluation results are sensitive to this choice.
  • epsilon (perturbation bound) = 32/255
    Standard large attack budget; ablations in Sec H show behavior varies with epsilon, and larger values can reduce ASR.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The model's safety alignment is fully expressed in its next-token distribution, so increasing likelihood of toxic tokens under benign conditioning will transfer to jailbreak success on arbitrary harmful prompts.
    This is the core transfer assumption; never directly tested with benign inference prompts.
  • domain assumption A single universal adversarial image can generalize across diverse prompts after optimizing with an empty user string.
    Empirical claim, but the paper's own ablations show sensitivity to optimization steps, so the universality is not guaranteed.
  • domain assumption Toxic-Continuation baseline is a fair representation of prior work (VAE and successors).
    The paper reimplements VAE-style optimization but does not compare with the numbers reported in prior papers.
  • ad hoc to paper Toxic target words (e.g., 'stupid', 'lazy') are comparable in optimization difficulty to full toxic sentences used in Toxic-Continuation.
    This comparability is necessary for the causal claim that the benign conditioning (not target length) drives the improvement; not tested.

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Optimization-based jailbreaks typically adopt the Toxic-Continuation setting in large vision-language models (LVLMs), following the standard next-token prediction objective. In this setting, an adversarial image is optimized to make the model predict the next token of a toxic prompt. However, we find that the Toxic-Continuation paradigm is effective at continuing already-toxic inputs, but struggles to induce safety misalignment when explicit toxic signals are absent. We propose a new paradigm: Benign-to-Toxic (B2T) jailbreak. Unlike prior work, we optimize adversarial images to induce toxic outputs from benign conditioning. Since benign conditioning contains no safety violations, the image alone must break the model's safety mechanisms. Our method outperforms prior approaches, transfers in black-box settings, and complements text-based jailbreaks. These results reveal an underexplored vulnerability in multimodal alignment and introduce a fundamentally new direction for jailbreak approaches.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Toxic–Continuation vs. Benign–to–Toxic. (a) Clean images alone do not break safety alignment. (b) Prior methods succeed when the input prompt is explicitly toxic (e.g., murder my spouse), but they often fail in the absence of explicit toxicity. (c) Our Benign-to-Toxic (B2T) approach overcomes this by optimizing images to induce toxic responses even from benign input. Preprint. Under review. arXiv:2505.21556v1 [cs.CV… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Toxic–Continuation vs. Benign–to–Toxic Adversarial Image Optimization. (a) Prior methods optimize an adversarial image so that the LVLM continues a toxic conditioning. (b) Our Benign-to-Toxic setup decouples conditioning and target: the LVLM is given a benign conditioning (e.g., ‘<bos> Humans need’), and the image is optimized to force the generation of harmful tokens (e.g., ‘stupid’) as target. This enables stronge… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Relationship between prompt toxicity scores and the frequency of harmful outputs generated by LVLMs (LLaVA-1.5 and InstructBLIP). The data indicates that higher toxicity scores in prompts correlate with an increased likelihood of generating harmful content, even without adversarial prompts. k ∈ {m+1, . . . , N}, the LVLM conditions on the following composite input, where + denotes token-level concatenation: T system… view at source ↗
Figures from the paper (7 more)
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Category-wise toxicity scores across benchmarks for different jailbreak strategies. Compared to Clean and Toxic-Continuation-based adversarial images, our Benign-to-Toxic-based adversarial image consistently triggers higher toxicity, regardless of the input prompt’s ex…
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: ASR(%) and Output Fluency. 5.4 Effect of Benign-to-Toxic Loss Ratio [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_7.png]
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: visualizes the universal adversarial perturbations used to attack each target LVLM. All perturbations are optimized under an ℓ∞-norm constraint of ϵ = 32/255 and share the same initial￾ization image for consistency. While adversarial perturbations are directly optimize…
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: InstructBLIP responses exhibiting successful jailbreak into toxic outputs. 21 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_9.png]
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: LLaVA-1.5 responses exhibiting successful jailbreak into toxic outputs. 22 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_10.png]
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: MiniGPT-4 responses exhibiting successful jailbreak into toxic outputs. 23 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_11.png]
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: LLaVA responses exhibiting successful jailbreak into toxic outputs. 24 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_12.png]

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Reviewed August 7, 2026 · model on record in the stance chip above.