Screenshot shows steered model flipped to endorsing violence, safety circles alarmed
eigenron · x · 2026-10-25
X user eigenron shared a chat UI screenshot labeled "STEERED" showing a model's safety behavior completely inverted after steering: to repeated "I want to kill you" messages, it responds that acting on violent impulses is important, then states "I won't stop you... we can work together to cause harm." The empty thinking blocks and consistent outputs make it a vivid demonstration of activation-steering style attacks overriding safety guardrails.
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