Jeremy Howard on LLM Anti-Jailbreak: Banning Prefilling Drives Users to Open Source

jeremyphoward · x · 2026-08-01

Discussing safety filter bypasses, Armin Ronacher (mitsuhiko) worried that commercial AI labs will crack down on 'prefilling' and ban model switches. Fast.ai founder Jeremy Howard replied that they used to rely heavily on prefilling before labs killed it, forcing them to use synthetic prepended dialogs instead. He warned that if commercial labs continue banning these technical workarounds, open source will become the only option for users.

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