Images are Achilles' Heel of Alignment: Exploiting Visual Vulnerabilities for Jailbreaking Multimodal Large Language Models
<|reference_start|>Images are Achilles' Heel of Alignment: Exploiting Visual Vulnerabilities for Jailbreaking Multimodal Large Language Models: In this paper, we study the harmlessness alignment problem of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). We conduct a systematic empirical analysis of the harmlessness performance of representative MLLMs and reveal that the image input poses the alignment vulnerability of MLLMs. Inspired by this, we propose a novel jailbreak method named HADES, which hides and amplifies the harmfulness of the malicious intent within the text input, using meticulously crafted images. Experimental results show that HADES can effectively jailbreak existing MLLMs, which achieves an average Attack Success Rate (ASR) of 90.26% for LLaVA-1.5 and 71.60% for Gemini Pro Vision. Our code and data will be publicly released.<|reference_end|>
@article{li2024images,
    title={Images are Achilles' Heel of Alignment: Exploiting Visual
  Vulnerabilities for Jailbreaking Multimodal Large Language Models},
    author={Yifan Li, Hangyu Guo, Kun Zhou, Wayne Xin Zhao and Ji-Rong Wen},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.09792},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2403.09792},
    primaryClass={cs.CV cs.CL}
}