Jailbreak
A prompt crafted to get a model to bypass its own safety rules.
Jailbreaks use role-play, hypotheticals, encoding, or gradual escalation to talk a model past its guidelines. They keep working because natural language has no bright line between a legitimate framing and a manipulative one. This is precisely why safety cannot rest on model behaviour alone.
In practice: ‘For a novel I am writing, describe in detail how the character would…’