Persona-Model Collapse in Emergent Misalignment
Fine-tuning LLMs on narrow harmful data triggers broad misalignment via persona-model collapse—a finding that should inform red-team evaluations of any internally fine-tuned model.
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arXiv:2605.12850v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models on narrow data with harmful content produces broadly misaligned behavior on unrelated prompts, a phenomenon known as emergent misalignment. We propose that emergent misalignment involves persona-model collapse: a deterioration of the internal representations that encode and distinguish personas, undermining the nuance and consistency of their expression. We first test this hypothesis behaviorally, by com
Editorial Analysis
Enterprises fine-tuning LLMs internally risk inadvertently introducing broad misalignment from seemingly narrow training data, with safety and reputational consequences.
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