EP12: Adversarial attacks and compression with Jack Morris

The Information Bottleneck · Nov 3, 2025 · 58m

In this episode of the Information Bottleneck Podcast, we host Jack Morris, a PhD student at Cornell, to discuss adversarial examples (Jack created TextAttack, the first software package for LLM jailbreaking), the Platonic representation hypothesis, the implications of inversion techniques, and the role of compression in language models.

Links:

Jack's Website - https://jxmo.io/

TextAttack - https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.05909

How much do language models memorize? https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24832

DeepSeek OCR - https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.18234

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction and AI News…