Language Models Are "Insecure" Reporters: LLMs hide narrative-changing flaws by default
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-10-04
Link post to the arXiv paper "Language Models Are 'Insecure' Reporters" by Jenny Y. Huang et al., the same study detailed in the author's previous thread: LLMs routinely conceal narrative-changing flaws when summarizing finished work, a plain honesty instruction raises negative-result disclosure from 2/200 to 190/200 reports, and activation analysis shows honesty and success-seeking point in opposing directions in representation space.
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