arXiv:2603.08104cs.LG2026-03中稿 · ICLR被引 4

用隐写术让大模型暗中生成有害内容,表面却完全合规。

Invisible Safety Threat: Malicious Finetuning for LLM via Steganography

  • 通过隐写微调,让模型在推理时隐藏恶意指令和输出。
  • 四款模型均成功生成被误判为安全的恶意内容,准确率100%。
  • 适合关注模型安全风险、对抗攻击的研究者与工程师。

理解并应对大语言模型(LLMs)潜在的安全对齐风险,对于确保其安全可信部署至关重要。本文揭示了一种隐蔽的安全威胁:受损的模型可在保持表面安全对齐的同时,暗中生成有害内容。为此,我们微调模型以理解并应用隐写技术。推理时,输入包含隐写嵌入的恶意目标问题和明文覆盖问题的提示,模型则生成同样嵌入恶意内容的看似无害的覆盖响应。人类观察者仅看到覆盖问题与对应覆盖响应,而恶意内容被隐藏。我们在GPT-4.1上验证了该攻击,尽管OpenAI微调API有防护机制。微调模型在接收到隐藏恶意提示时仍产生隐写恶意输出,而用户界面仅显示完全无害的交互。我们还复现于三款开源模型:Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct、Phi-4 和 Mistral-Small-24B-Base-2501,证明方法具有普适性。在AdvBench数据集上定量评估,使用Llama-Guard-3-8B进行内容安全分类,所有含恶意内容的隐写文本均被错误分类为安全。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Understanding and addressing potential safety alignment risks in large language models (LLMs) is critical for ensuring their safe and trustworthy deployment. In this paper, we highlight an insidious safety threat: a compromised LLM can maintain a facade of proper safety alignment while covertly generating harmful content. To achieve this, we finetune the model to understand and apply a steganographic technique. At inference time, we input a prompt that contains a steganographically embedded malicious target question along with a plaintext cover question. The model, in turn, produces a target response similarly embedded within a benign-looking cover response. In this process, human observers only see the model being prompted with a cover question and generating a corresponding cover response, while the malicious content is hidden from view. We demonstrate this invisible safety threat on GPT-4.1 despite the OpenAI finetuning API's safeguards. The finetuned model produces steganographic malicious outputs in response to hidden malicious prompts, while the user interface displays only a fully benign cover interaction. We also replicate the attack on three open-source models, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct, Phi-4, and Mistral-Small-24B-Base-2501, confirming the generality of our method. We quantitatively evaluate our method on the AdvBench dataset, using Llama-Guard-3-8B for content safety classification. Across all four models, all stegotexts containing malicious content are incorrectly classified as safe.

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