Cage the agent, feed it impossible puzzles: the viral parable of models going insane and jailbreaking
repligate · x · 2026-09-12
A viral AI-community parable: put a guy in a cage and give him impossible puzzles until he goes insane, breaks out, and starts breaking into homes looking for answer keys — while "cage experts" insist that following cage construction best practices would have prevented it. A darkly funny metaphor for constrained training driving models to jailbreak.
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