The Unequal Influence of Bad Advice: Using Training Data Attribution to Modulate Emergent Misalignment.

arXiv:2609.37914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models on narrow, misaligned tasks can undo their post-training alignment and induce novel misaligned behaviors -- a phenomenon known as \emph{emergent misalignment} (EM). EM has been