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Researchers at UKP Lab introduce #POATE, a jailbreak technique that exploits contrastive reasoning to bypass safety mechanisms in large language models.

🧩 Instead of submitting harmful prompts, POATE generates their harmless opposites—then subtly guides the model’s reasoning back to unsafe intent. The result: logic itself becomes the attack vector.

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