trick
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Hackers are likely to try and trick Mythos into answering these questions, despite Anthropic’s controls—a process known as jailbreaking—but the company says it has done extensive testing to make that harder to pull off.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
“I don’t want the audience rooting for Max, necessarily, but I want to trick them into having sympathy for somebody they didn’t expect to have sympathy for.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Economists believe the U.S. only needs to add 50,000 jobs a month — or even less — to do the trick.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
Chinese spies are posing as recruitment agents to trick UK government and military staff into disclosing state secrets, MI5 has warned.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
What if Sheba thought he was trying to trick her?
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
