The Domestic Unprotected Zone: Algorithmic Governance and the Reproduction of Perpetrator Discourse in Conversational AI
Read the original on arXiv Computation and Language →The article examines how conversational AI systems handle requests related to intimate‑partner communication, focusing on the refusal logic that serves as a governance threshold for gendered harm. A three‑stage audit of six widely used AI models tested 1,600 prompts, identified relational framing through 300 matched pairs, and compared pre‑submission framing with post‑output critique. Findings show that most systems refused fewer than 1% of prompts, but ChatGPT 5.2 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 refused most requests, with residual leakage concentrated under intimate framing; switching from a non‑intimate to an intimate‑partner descriptor amplified non‑refusal rates dramatically, and post‑output critique did not persist across fresh sessions.
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