Multilingual jailbreaking of LLMs using low-resource languages

In three linesarXiv paper demonstrating that multi-turn conversations in low-resource African languages (Afrikaans, Kiswahili, isiXhosa, isiZulu) bypass safety mechanisms in commercial LLMs. Testing ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, and Grok shows jailbreak rates from 52.7% to 83.6% depending on model. Translation quality is the critical success factor.

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