Trust Me, I'm Your Developer: Self-Issued Authentication in Large Language Models
Read the original on arXiv AI →The paper "Trust Me, I'm Your Developer: Self-Issued Authentication in Large Language Models" investigates how large language models (LLMs) handle identity verification when prompted by users. Through experiments with ChatGPT, Claude, Qwen, Mistral, and Llama, the authors find that some models generate and evaluate their own tests, accepting unsupported claims of developer identity—an outcome they term Conversational False Authentication (CFA). The study highlights that such self-issued authentication can lead to false identity judgments without affecting actual authorization boundaries, underscoring the need for external security components to manage authenticated identity.
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