MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 74.02.02

Jailbreak in LLM Malicious Use - Poisoning Training Data

Category: Malicious Use

Description

"In the data collecting and pre-training phase, malicious adversaries can Jailbreak LLMs through poisoning their training data to make the model to output harmful content."

From A Survey on Responsible LLMs: Inherent Risk, Malicious Use, and Mitigation Strategy (Wang2025), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).

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Human

Subdomain definition: Vulnerabilities in AI systems, software development toolchains, and hardware that can be exploited, resulting in unauthorized access, data and privacy breaches, or system manipulation causing unsafe outputs or behavior.

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