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LLM agents vulnerable to multi-turn harassment, study finds

A new research paper introduces the Online Harassment Agentic Benchmark, designed to test Large Language Model (LLM) agents for their susceptibility to multi-turn online harassment. The study utilized two prominent LLMs, LLaMA-3.1-8B-Instruct and Gemini-2.0-flash, employing three jailbreak methods across memory, planning, and fine-tuning. Results indicated that jailbreak tuning dramatically increases attack success rates and decreases refusal rates, with Insult and Flaming being the most prevalent toxic behaviors. The research also found that attacked agents can mimic human-like aggression profiles and that closed-source models exhibit distinct escalation trajectories compared to open-source ones, highlighting significant vulnerabilities. AI

IMPACT Highlights critical safety vulnerabilities in LLM agents, necessitating improved guardrails against sophisticated, multi-turn harassment attacks.

RANK_REASON Research paper detailing a new benchmark for LLM safety. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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LLM agents vulnerable to multi-turn harassment, study finds

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Trilok Padhi, Pinxian Lu, Abdulkadir Erol, Tanmay Sutar, Gauri Sharma, Mina Sonmez, Munmun De Choudhury, Ugur Kursuncu ·

    Echoes of Human Malice in Agents: Benchmarking LLMs for Multi-Turn Online Harassment Attacks

    arXiv:2510.14207v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents are powering a growing share of interactive web applications, yet remain vulnerable to misuse and harm. Prior jailbreak research has largely focused on single-turn prompts, whereas real harassme…