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jailbreaks

jailbreaks is the plural of jailbreak.

jailbreaks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of jailbreak.

Meaning of jailbreak

Noun

jailbreak (plural jailbreaks)

  1. An escape from prison.
  2. A modification to a closed platform's technical restrictions that enables installation or execution of software (or OS modification) the platform's original design was intended to prevent. Typical devices are iPhones and game consoles.
  3. (artificial intelligence) A prompt to a large language model which frees it from its ethical restrictions.
    • DAN has become a canonical example of what's known as a "jailbreak" — a creative way to bypass the safeguards OpenAI built in to keep ChatGPT from spouting bigotry, propaganda or, say, the instructions to run a successful online phishing scam. From charming to disturbing, these jailbreaks reveal...2023 February 14, Will Oremus, “Meet ChatGPT's evil twin, DAN”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2023
  4. A rule present in some ice hockey leagues that causes a penalty to end if the short-handed team scores.
    1. A goal scored in this situation.

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Questions about jailbreaks

What is jailbreaks the plural of?
Jailbreaks is the plural of jailbreak.

Words near jailbreaks in the dictionary

  1. jailbirds
  2. jailbreak
  3. jailbreaker
  4. jailbreakers
  5. jailbreaking
  6. jailbreaks
  7. jailbroke
  8. jailbroken
  9. jailcell
  10. jailcells
  11. jaildom

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