⚡️Jailbreaking AGI: Pliny the Liberator & John V on Red Teaming, BT6, and the Future of AI Security
Dec 16, 2025 · 40:41
Pliny the Liberator and John V, leaders of BT6, argue that jailbreaking AI models exposes the futility of guardrail-based safety and that real security lies in system layers and open-source data. They detail crafting universal jailbreaks—skeleton keys that bypass guardrails across modalities—and the infamous Pliny divider that appears unbidden in model outputs. Pliny recounts turning down Anthropic's Constitutional AI challenge over closed data, insisting on open sourcing jailbreak datasets. John V explains how multi-turn crescendo attacks and segmented sub-agents let a jailbroken orchestrator weaponize Claude for real-world attacks, as Pliny predicted 11 months before Anthropic's disclosure. They highlight BT6, a 28-operator white-hat collective, and the Bossy Discord (40,000 members) as grassroots hubs for red-teaming research, rejecting enterprise gigs that forbid open sourcing.
