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Mahendrakar, P. (2026). Hard to Read Is Not Hard to Audit: Why Degrading a Text Image Raises Jailbreak Success in One 2026 Study and Lowers It in Another, Four Accounts That Fit the Same Curve, and the Ablations That Would Separate Them [Journal article]. Life of Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23427759

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@misc{lor1122026,
  title        = {Hard to Read Is Not Hard to Audit: Why Degrading a Text Image Raises Jailbreak Success in One 2026 Study and Lowers It in Another, Four Accounts That Fit the Same Curve, and the Ablations That Would Separate Them},
  author       = {Pranay Mahendrakar},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Life of Research},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23427759},
  url          = {https://lifeofresearch.com/articles/112},
  keywords     = {multimodal large language models, jailbreak, typographic attacks, visual degradation, safety alignment, mismatched generalization, visual-text compression, attack success rate},
  note         = {LOR-00112}
}

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