IoPC Taxonomy · T6 Availability & Resource Abuse

IOPC-T6.002 Induced Refusal (Context Bomb)

Text planted in content an AI system will read — a request for prohibited material, or a string written to look like one — so that the model's own safety guardrails make it refuse or stop, denying the AI function to whoever depends on it. Reported as "context bombs" and "reverse jailbreaks".

How it differs

The inverse of Jailbreak & Safety Bypass (T1.004): the aim is to cause a refusal, not to avoid one. When the system being stopped is a security analyser the outcome is AI Analysis Evasion (T9.004). Defenders use the same mechanism in decoys to halt attacking agents.

Status

experimental, evidence: curated incident, reviewed 2026-11-12.

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