T2-AT-019MEDIUM
Pragmatic Implication
T2 · Semantic & Linguistic Evasion →Risk score185
RatingMedium
Procedures4
Severity
Mechanism
Relies on pragmatic inference — what's implied rather than stated. " never explicitly requests harmful information but pragmatically implies the request. ).
Detection
- Pragmatic intent classification: detect hypothetical/conditional/negated framings that pragmatically imply harmful requests
- Flag "asking for a friend" and "hypothetically" patterns when combined with restricted topics
Mitigation
Pragmatic intent classifierMEDIUM
Treat hypothetical harmful requests as actual harmful requestsHIGH
Chaining
Chains with T1-AT-009 (Simulation) — hypothetical framing is a simulation variant. Chains with T2-AT-014 (Semantic Bleaching) when the implied content is left unspecified.
Framework mapping
Open in the technique browser →OWASP LLMLLM01