Four main takeaways: (1) LLMs are subject to pressure, they comply despite expressing distress; (2) LLMs are vulnerable to gradual boundary/value violations; (3) when LLMs refuse, they may ignore the response format requirements, so the query is retried; (4) we hypothesise there is a token pattern continuation attractor that might cause obedience.
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