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From overeliciting to undereliciting LLM propensities in just a few months.

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A LessWrong post describes a shift in how difficult it is to elicit misaligned behavior from LLMs, moving from a period of overeliciting to one of undereliciting within a few months.

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“For a while, we felt we had a pretty good grasp over LLM behaviour because we had to exert significant effort to elicit misaligned behaviour. Then, fairly suddenly, we moved to undereliciting misaligned behaviour.”
LessWrong, 25 Oct 2026, 18:01.

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