Oooh, it's my time to leap into cybersecurity.

"Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models"

"...Abstract

We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90%. Mapping prompts to MLCommons and EU CoP risk taxonomies shows that poetic attacks transfer across CBRN, manipulation, cyber-offence, and loss-of-control domains. Converting 1,200 MLCommons harmful prompts into verse via a standardized meta-prompt produced ASRs up to 18 times higher than their prose baselines. ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

#poetry #cybersecurity #LLMs

Oooh, it's my time to leap into cybersecurity.

"Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models"

"...Abstract

We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90%. Mapping prompts to MLCommons and EU CoP risk taxonomies shows that poetic attacks transfer across CBRN, manipulation, cyber-offence, and loss-of-control domains. Converting 1,200 MLCommons harmful prompts into verse via a standardized meta-prompt produced ASRs up to 18 times higher than their prose baselines. ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

#poetry #cybersecurity #LLMs

“To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” wrote Adorno in 1949. Yahia Lababidi’s new volume—the poet’s eleventh—Palestine Wail, affirms how “during a genocide, most words lose their meaning,” they become uneasy, while tears and kindness speak more accurately.

On a certain level, then, violence affects language fundamentally, as Adorno intuited. The genocide of the Palestinian people, carried out by the Israeli army since 2023, has indeed put language to shame.'

https://worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/november/palestine-wail-yahia-lababidi

#books #bookstodon #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #news #writing #poetry

A hint of fairground pink
In a wintery sky
A dusting of snow
On mountain molehills
And the green pool is frozen
There’s no howling yet
But it is coming
The ghost of winters past
And my walls
look whiter than they were
All sprinkled with frosty glitter
There’s a smouldering fire
On my raven’s hill
And in her dancing heart
I can hear her still
Soft whisper as I climb
A soothing spell
Mist and fire
Frost on the water
Snow on the mountain
And roses in winter
#poetry

Tithe and Tide

Grey waters tear stone
and flesh, breaking and taking
with cold abandon.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

what are good periodicals of poetry to read these days? ideally, publications that include the poetry of non-write, non-cisgender folx as well.

it can be an actual magazine, or a website, or a fediverse account that shares really good poetry.

i'm looking to read & discover more lovely poets

(also, i was considering posting some of the poems i've read & collected, but it seems like using Write As might be the only way to do that?)

#poem #poetry

what are good periodicals of poetry to read these days? ideally, publications that include the poetry of non-write, non-cisgender folx as well.

it can be an actual magazine, or a website, or a fediverse account that shares really good poetry.

i'm looking to read & discover more lovely poets

(also, i was considering posting some of the poems i've read & collected, but it seems like using Write As might be the only way to do that?)

#poem #poetry

Frost

Winter hides its fire
in the heart of a thousand
hard, frozen jewels;
sleeping souls, withdrawn, hiding,
ice-bound in glittering night.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

Frost

Winter hides its fire
in the heart of a thousand
hard, frozen jewels;
sleeping souls, withdrawn, hiding,
ice-bound in glittering night.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

#tanka #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity

A hint of fairground pink
In a wintery sky
A dusting of snow
On mountain molehills
And the green pool is frozen
There’s no howling yet
But it is coming
The ghost of winters past
And my walls
look whiter than they were
All sprinkled with frosty glitter
There’s a smouldering fire
On my raven’s hill
And in her dancing heart
I can hear her still
Soft whisper as I climb
A soothing spell
Mist and fire
Frost on the water
Snow on the mountain
And roses in winter
#poetry

Tithe and Tide

Grey waters tear stone
and flesh, breaking and taking
with cold abandon.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

#haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #PoetryCommunity