arXiv AI

Falsehood and Impossibility Are Different Directions in an AI's Representation of Language

arXiv:2608. 12852v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language can describe states of affairs that are false and states of affairs that could not be the case at all.

arXiv AI
Jul 7

The Rise of Verbal Tics in Large Language Models: A Systematic Analysis Across Frontier Models

arXiv:2604. 19139v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to evolve through alignment techniques such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and Constitutional AI, a growing and increasingly conspicuous phenomenon has emerged: the proliferation of verbal tics--repetitive, formulaic linguistic patterns that pervade model outputs.

By Shuai Wu, Xue Li, Yanna Feng, Yufang Li, Zhijun Wang, Ran Wang
arXiv AI
6d ago

Self-Referential Induction Increases Response Instability Relative to Unresolvable and Verifiable Questions in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608. 13258v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-referential prompting has been shown to reliably induce large language models to produce first-person reports resembling subjective experience, but no prior work measures how consistent these reports are across repeated, independent trials, or how that consistency compares to the model's behavior on other kinds of open-ended questions.

By Paras Balani, Subhrakanta Panda