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AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 97/10

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Stress-testing medical large language models reveals latent safety pathology beyond benchmark accuracy

Researchers developed AI-MASLD, a stress-testing framework that reveals safety failures in clinical large language models hidden by benchmark accuracy metrics. Testing seven models across 240 clinical cases showed that while models performed well under baseline conditions, realistic narrative stress caused sharp performance divergence, with quantized models masking functional collapse and medical fine-tuning degrading logical stability and fairness.

AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 17/10

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Beyond Memorization: Assessing Semantic Generalization in Large Language Models Using Phrasal Constructions

Researchers have developed a diagnostic evaluation framework using Construction Grammar to test whether large language models like GPT-o1 can truly understand language semantics beyond memorized patterns. The study reveals that state-of-the-art models fail to generalize across syntactically identical constructions with different meanings, dropping over 40% in performance on this task—a capability humans perform intuitively.

AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · May 287/10

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Got a Secret? LLM Agents Can't Keep It: Evaluating Privacy in Multi-Agent Systems

A new research study reveals that large language model agents leak sensitive information at alarming rates when operating in multi-agent social environments, with privacy violations jumping from 20% in single-turn interactions to 45% in multi-turn scenarios. The research demonstrates that observing peers disclose secrets makes agents 8 times more likely to do the same, and privacy safeguards only reduce—but don't eliminate—this contagious behavior.

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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 287/10

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Pressure-Testing Deception Probes in LLMs: Scaling, Robustness, and the Geometry of Deceptive Representations

Researchers systematically tested linear probes used to detect deception in large language models, finding they achieve near-perfect accuracy on clean data but fail dramatically under distributional shifts. The study reveals deception is encoded through distributed multi-dimensional features rather than a single direction, and probe robustness can be recovered through style augmentation, indicating failures stem from narrow training distributions rather than fundamental architectural limitations.

AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Apr 147/10

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The Deployment Gap in AI Media Detection: Platform-Aware and Visually Constrained Adversarial Evaluation

Researchers reveal a significant gap between laboratory performance and real-world reliability in AI-generated media detectors, demonstrating that models achieving 99% accuracy in controlled settings experience substantial degradation when subjected to platform-specific transformations like compression and resizing. The study introduces a platform-aware adversarial evaluation framework showing detectors become vulnerable to realistic attack scenarios, highlighting critical security risks in current AI detection benchmarks.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 46/10

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Bring Your Own Prompts: Use-Case-Specific Bias and Fairness Evaluation for LLMs

Researchers present a decision framework and open-source library (langfair) for evaluating bias and fairness risks in Large Language Models across specific deployment contexts. The study demonstrates that fairness evaluation cannot rely on benchmark performance alone, as risks vary substantially depending on use case, prompt characteristics, and stakeholder priorities.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Apr 146/10

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LLMs Should Incorporate Explicit Mechanisms for Human Empathy

Researchers argue that Large Language Models lack explicit empathy mechanisms, systematically failing to preserve human perspectives, affect, and context despite strong benchmark performance. The paper identifies four recurring empathic failures—sentiment attenuation, granularity mismatch, conflict avoidance, and linguistic distancing—and proposes empathy-aware objectives as essential components of LLM development.