Chat model refuses to output any pronouns at all, professor shares curious test

conitzer · x · 2026-10-07

Duke professor Vincent Conitzer shares a curious model behavior: the chatbot refuses to output any pronouns whatsoever, a quirk his daughter helped demonstrate with screenshots. Likely an over-aggressive safety filter, it's a vivid case of guardrails producing odd output restrictions.

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