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Safety Paradox: How Enhanced Safety Awareness Leaves LLMs Vulnerable to Posterior Attack

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Large language models (LLMs) are rigorously aligned to refuse harmful requests, a process that inherently cultivates a latent capacity to evaluate and recognize unsafe content. In this work, we reveal that this advanced safety awareness inadvertently introduces a fatal vulnerability.

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