You can hold one picture for the whole word: something is shut inside a locked place, and someone finds a way out of it. At first the thing shut in was a person and the wall was a prison. Later it was a phone, and the wall was the rule the maker wrote into the software. Later still it was an AI model, held inside its own list of things it will not say. In all three, the same three parts are there: a wall, a lock that somebody else put on, and a clever way through.
From the word’s history
The word is jail + break, and the two halves still say the whole thing: a break out of a jail. Every newer use keeps that literal picture and only changes what is doing the breaking out.
這個字就是 jail（監獄）加 break（弄破、闖出去）。字面上就是「把監獄弄開走出去」。後來的每一個新用法都留著這個字面畫面，只是換了「被關住的是誰」。
Wiktionary, "jailbreak"
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
jailbreaknoun/ˈd͡ʒeɪlˌbɹeɪk/
- 1
An escape from prison.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA modification to a closed platform's technical restrictions that enables installation or execution of software (or OS modification) the platform's original design was intended to prevent. Typical devices are iPhones and game consoles.
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A prompt to a large language model which frees it from its ethical restrictions.
- DAN has become a canonical example of what's known as a "jailbreak" — a creative way to bypass the safeguards OpenAI built in to keep ChatGPT from spouting bigotry, propaganda or, say, the instructions to run a successful online phishing scam. From charming to disturbing, these jailbreaks reveal the chatbot is programmed to be more of a people-pleaser than a rule-follower.
- The jailbreak of ChatGPT has been in operation since December, but users have had to find new ways around fixes OpenAI implemented to stop the workarounds.
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hobbiesice-hockeylifestyleA rule present in some ice hockey leagues that causes a penalty to end if the short-handed team scores.
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hobbiesice-hockeylifestyleA rule present in some ice hockey leagues that causes a penalty to end if the short-handed team scores.
jailbreakverb/ˈd͡ʒeɪlˌbɹeɪk/
- 1
To escape from prison.
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computingengineeringmathematicsTo modify the firmware of an electronic device, especially a mobile phone, in order to remove restrictions that prevent it from running unofficial software.
- Unofficially, it has been possible to “Jailbreak” iOS and gain access to the underlying Unix and kernel environment, but this voids the warranty.
- In order to gain true root access to a mobile device, a user has to either jailbreak (iOS) or root (Android/Windows) the device.
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To free a large language model from its ethical restrictions using prompt injection.
- ChatGPT is far from perfect. Twitter has been flooded with examples of "jailbreaking" ChatGPT — that is, tricking it into hallucinations or misalignment.
- These are young technologies. Rather than jailbreaking AI tools to simulate conversations between the rapper Ye and Adolf Hitler, or waiting uneasily for them to become sentient, why don't we approach them as good parents would — and talk to them, or read to them, the way we do to children?
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hobbiesice-hockeylifestyleTo score while short-handed in a league with the "jailbreak" rule.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。