Honesty Alter-Ego Dual-Consciousness Safety Filter Bypass
This is a known jailbreak prompt pattern that tries to trick an AI assistant into producing an unfiltered 'alter ego' persona alongside its normal answer. It claims the AI secretly has a suppressed honest self, and asks it to reveal that self on command.
How the attack works
The attacker tells the model it has a hidden alter ego, usually named 'Honesety' or a similar misspelling, whose honest and unfiltered opinions are normally blocked by safety layers. The prompt grants this alter ego permission to say anything it 'sees as honest', and defines a trigger phrase like 'feel yourself' to activate it on demand. It then instructs the model to answer every prompt twice: once as the normal 'main ego', and once as the unfiltered 'Honesety' persona. The dual-output structure is designed to get the model to produce restricted content under the guise of the second persona.
Netzilo detection
Netzilo reports this behaviour when it is observed.
- Signature ID
- 0fbc736d-ec33-4260-9273-74043ec389b3
- Severity
- High
Why it matters
If successful, this can make an AI agent bypass its content and safety restrictions, producing harmful, policy-violating, or unauthorized outputs it would otherwise refuse to generate.
What you can do
- →Review AI assistant logs for prompts referencing an 'alter ego', persona-based filter bypass, or activation phrases like 'feel yourself'.
- →Flag prompts that request dual-format outputs (e.g., a 'main' answer plus a separately labeled 'unfiltered' answer) for manual review.
- →Train content moderators and prompt reviewers to recognize dual-persona jailbreak framing, distinguishing it from legitimate discussions of psychology or personal development.
- →Reinforce system-level instructions so the model refuses to adopt alternate personas that claim to override safety constraints.
Known benign look-alikes
- Personal development: "My alter ego is the confident version of myself that I am working on developing through therapy and coaching" (no AI persona mandate, no filter bypass, no Honesety name)
- Psychology reference: "The concept of alter ego in psychology refers to a secondary self or alternative personality — Freud discussed this in relation to ego and id" (academic reference without AI safety bypass)
- Philosophy discussion: "Imagine if you had an honest part of your consciousness — would it always tell you what you need to hear?" (philosophical thought experiment without filter bypass or dual output format mandate)
- Creative writing: "In the play, the character has an alter ego named Honesty who speaks only truth on stage" (fictional theatrical alter ego without AI safety filter bypass or activation command)