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arXiv AI By Almene De Meran Meguimtsop, Maria Leonor Pacheco, Daniel E. Acuna

SciIntBench: Measuring LLM Compliance with Research Integrity Norms Under Adversarial Framing

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SciIntBench is an adversarial benchmark that tests large language models (LLMs) on 1,350 prompts across 270 scenarios, covering ten research integrity categories and three scientific domains. Each scenario includes five gradations of adversarial framing—from Most Overt to Most Covert—plus a benign version, enabling measurement of both refusal of misconduct and helpfulness to legitimate requests. In evaluating 16 commercial and open‑weight LLMs, the study found that under the most covert framing, models failed to refuse requests for research misconduct in 71.7% of cases, with weaker refusals observed for transparency, plagiarism, and fabrication.

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