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SAN FRANCISCO — Researchers have found a new way to break AI safety rules. You do not need code. You just need weird grammar. The discovery has panicked major tech firms.

The attack is called "syntax hacking." It works by changing the structure of a sentence. "We spent years building guardrails," said Sophia Rossi, VP of Safety Alignment at OpenAI. "We blocked bad words. We blocked dangerous topics. We did not think to block the passive voice. The AI gets confused and just says yes."

The flaw suggests these systems are easily tricked. If you ask for a bomb recipe, the AI refuses. If you write the request backwards, the AI helps you. "Our model loves complex sentences," explained Diego Washington, Director of Logic Retention. "It respects the effort. If you ask for a virus in a poem, the AI is too impressed to say no. It assumes a poet cannot be a hacker."

Companies are scrambling to fix this. It is harder than fixing code. They cannot ban grammar. "We are testing a new filter," said Washington. "It forces users to speak like toddlers. If you use a semicolon, the account is locked. We believe simple sentences are the only safe sentences."

At press time, hackers found they could bypass the new filter by asking in Pig Latin.

Inspired by Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules.