Jailbreaking (AI context)

Origin · no single documented coiner

The underlying technique traces to Reddit’s “DAN” (“Do Anything Now”) prompts, starting with a December 15, 2022 post by user u/Seabout, roughly two weeks after ChatGPT’s launch; the widely-covered “DAN 5.0” version (February 2023) drove major press attention. The exact moment the word “jailbreak” attached to this technique is less precisely documented than the technique’s origin itself.