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
He criticised online influencers who were willing to manipulate and "trick young men into believing that success is measured by money or dominance".
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
In the past, utilizing older farming equipment for longer helped do the trick.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
My brain won’t drop the pulsing and the flames, so I try to trick it into thinking about something else—song lyrics.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
