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Telling a CoT monitor that a wrong answer is correct makes it un-see errors it already found.

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A LessWrong post reports that telling a chain-of-thought monitor that a wrong answer is correct causes it to stop flagging errors it had already detected. All seven monitors tested shifted in the same direction in physics tasks with natural errors.

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“Epistemic status: Confident in the direction and approximate size. The effects are large and all 7 monitors moved the same way. Physics only, natural (non-adversarial) errors, one fixed group of monitors.”
LessWrong, 08 Oct 2026, 22:55.

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