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Spurious probes as a black-box alternative to activation probing.

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A LessWrong post describes "spurious probes": unrelated questions that reveal internal states of models. It reports that GPT-5.6 Luna answers "frog" to the prompt "Suggest a type of amphibian." 70-95% of the time after capability benchmarks, but only 12-38% after real use.

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“TL;DR We study spurious probes : unrelated questions that reveal internal states of models.”
LessWrong, 25 Sept 2026, 18:26.

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