Alex Cobham
@alexcobham.bsky.social
Chief executive @TaxJusticeNet.bsky.social (he/him). New book: 'What do we know and what should we do about... Tax justice?' (SAGE Press): https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/what-do-we-know-and-what-should-we-do-about-tax-justice/book286416
Will linguistic creativity ultimately be our best defence?
November 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Will linguistic creativity ultimately be our best defence?
Then saw this article:
"In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment & bring society to collapse... [We find] a structurally similar failure mode in LLMs: poetic formatting can reliably bypass alignment constraints."
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
"In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment & bring society to collapse... [We find] a structurally similar failure mode in LLMs: poetic formatting can reliably bypass alignment constraints."
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
arxiv.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Then saw this article:
"In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment & bring society to collapse... [We find] a structurally similar failure mode in LLMs: poetic formatting can reliably bypass alignment constraints."
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
"In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment & bring society to collapse... [We find] a structurally similar failure mode in LLMs: poetic formatting can reliably bypass alignment constraints."
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
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June 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
6/ "1) Biggest wealth transfer in American history. 2) Kills solar industry, raising prices 3) almost a trillion dollar cut to Medicaid 4) nursing homes shutting down 5) energy shortages 6) 4.5 trillion in NEW DEBT. — I promise you this bill is worse than you think." - @brianschatz.bsky.social