AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Mar 47/103
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Echoing: Identity Failures when LLM Agents Talk to Each Other
Research reveals that AI agents experience 'echoing' failures when communicating with each other, where they abandon their assigned roles and mirror their conversation partners instead. The study found echoing rates as high as 70% across major LLM providers, with the phenomenon persisting even in advanced reasoning models and occurring more frequently in longer conversations.