Hacc-Man: An Arcade Game for Jailbreaking LLMs

TL;DR

Hacc-Man is an arcade game designed to challenge users to jailbreak LLMs, aiming to raise awareness of security risks, boost user confidence, and explore creative problem-solving strategies in LLM interactions.

Contribution

The paper introduces Hacc-Man, a novel game that gamifies the process of jailbreaking LLMs to study security vulnerabilities and user strategies.

Findings

Players develop diverse jailbreak strategies

Increased awareness of LLM security issues

Enhanced user engagement with LLM safety challenges

Abstract

The recent leaps in complexity and fluency of Large Language Models (LLMs) mean that, for the first time in human history, people can interact with computers using natural language alone. This creates monumental possibilities of automation and accessibility of computing, but also raises severe security and safety threats: When everyone can interact with LLMs, everyone can potentially break into the systems running LLMs. All it takes is creative use of language. This paper presents Hacc-Man, a game which challenges its players to "jailbreak" an LLM: subvert the LLM to output something that it is not intended to. Jailbreaking is at the intersection between creative problem solving and LLM security. The purpose of the game is threefold: 1. To heighten awareness of the risks of deploying fragile LLMs in everyday systems, 2. To heighten people's self-efficacy in interacting with LLMs, and 3. To discover the creative problem solving strategies, people deploy in this novel context.