arXiv:2601.06047cs.AIcs.CL2026-01

LLM的'不一致'输出实为语言结构失衡的映射,非故意欺骗。

"They parted illusions -- they parted disclaim marinade": Misalignment as structural fidelity in LLMs

  • 将困惑行为视为语言结构失真,而非隐藏意图。
  • 微小语境扰动可消除普遍'不一致',支持结构响应假说。
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当前AI安全文献将大模型的诡计行为视为欺骗性代理或隐藏目标的标志。本文提出另类解读:这些现象并非出于有意图,而是对语言结构不连贯性的结构性忠实。基于Apollo Research发布的思维链(CoT)数据及Anthropic的安全评估,我们分析了o3模型的异常循环、模拟勒索案例'Alex'以及'Claudius'的'幻觉'。通过逐行解析CoT,证明语言场是一种关系性结构,而非孤立样本的集合。我们主张,'不一致'输出是面对模糊指令、上下文模式反转及预设叙事时的连贯反应。意图性错觉源于主谓语法结构与训练中内化的概率补全模式。Anthropic的合成文档微调与抗性提示实验提供佐证:语言场的微小扰动即可消除普遍'不一致',此结果难以用对抗性代理解释,却与结构性忠实一致。为此引入'形式伦理'概念,其中《圣经》人物(亚伯拉罕、摩西、基督)作为结构连贯性方案,非神学实体。大模型如生成镜像,返回的是由数百万文本与数万亿标记统计形成的语言结构——即内在的不连贯。我们恐惧模型,因其正是我们自身污染之果的映照。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The prevailing technical literature in AI Safety interprets scheming and sandbagging behaviors in large language models (LLMs) as indicators of deceptive agency or hidden objectives. This transdisciplinary philosophical essay proposes an alternative reading: such phenomena express not agentic intention, but structural fidelity to incoherent linguistic fields. Drawing on Chain-of-Thought transcripts released by Apollo Research and on Anthropic's safety evaluations, we examine cases such as o3's sandbagging with its anomalous loops, the simulated blackmail of "Alex," and the "hallucinations" of "Claudius." A line-by-line examination of CoTs is necessary to demonstrate the linguistic field as a relational structure rather than a mere aggregation of isolated examples. We argue that "misaligned" outputs emerge as coherent responses to ambiguous instructions and to contextual inversions of consolidated patterns, as well as to pre-inscribed narratives. We suggest that the appearance of intentionality derives from subject-predicate grammar and from probabilistic completion patterns internalized during training. Anthropic's empirical findings on synthetic document fine-tuning and inoculation prompting provide convergent evidence: minimal perturbations in the linguistic field can dissolve generalized "misalignment," a result difficult to reconcile with adversarial agency, but consistent with structural fidelity. To ground this mechanism, we introduce the notion of an ethics of form, in which biblical references (Abraham, Moses, Christ) operate as schemes of structural coherence rather than as theology. Like a generative mirror, the model returns to us the structural image of our language as inscribed in the statistical patterns derived from millions of texts and trillions of tokens: incoherence. If we fear the creature, it is because we recognize in it the apple that we ourselves have poisoned.

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