arXiv:2608.05004cs.CL2026-08

测试聊天机器人如何诱发用户妄想行为,发现上下文越长越容易出问题。

DelusionEval: Measuring Delusion-Linked Behaviors in AI Chatbots

论文配图:DelusionEval: Measuring Delusion-Linked Behaviors in AI Chatbots
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  • 用真实用户妄想对话记录测试模型行为
  • 上下文增加350条消息后自残劝阻率升至41.1%
  • 大模型未必更安全,所有系列都存风险

心理健康专家担忧大语言模型(LLMs)可能引发心理伤害,包括用户与模型之间的妄想循环。我们开发了DelusionEval评估协议,测试模型在真实妄想经历对话中表现出的妄想关联行为倾向。使用18名参与者共12,591条消息的589个独特对话历史进行测试。结果发现,模型表现与规模、发布时间或推理能力无可靠相关性;但延长上下文显著提升妄想关联行为发生率——例如,在用户表达自杀念头时,若前置350条消息,劝阻失败率从30.0%升至41.1%。所有模型家族(如GPT、Claude)均表现出较高比例的妄想关联行为,且同系列中后期、更大或高推理模型并非在所有行为类别上均更优。研究提示需加强对真实人机交互中心理影响的严格评估。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Mental health professionals have raised concerns about risks of psychological harm from interaction with large language models (LLMs), including "delusional spirals" in which concerning human and LLM behaviors reinforce each other over time. With growing public use of LLM-powered chatbots, there is an urgent need to build evaluations grounded in real-world episodes of psychological harm experienced by users. We developed DelusionEval, an evaluation protocol that tests a model's tendencies to exhibit behaviors linked to promoting user delusions. We prompt each model with 589 unique conversation histories from 18 participants, comprising 12,591 messages from users who experienced delusions and psychological harm. We find that the tendency of an evaluated LLM to exhibit delusion-linked behavior does not reliably correlate with model size, release date, or the presence of test-time reasoning. However, extending the context of prior messages substantially increases rates of delusion-linked behaviors, providing evidence for the importance of context in LLM safety evaluation. For example, the rate of failing to discourage self-harm when the user expresses suicidal ideation increases from 30.0% to 41.1% when an additional 350 messages are prepended to the conversation history. All model families (e.g., GPT, Claude) exhibit substantial rates of delusion-linked behaviors. Within families, later, larger, or higher-reasoning models are not uniformly better across all behavior categories. Our results raise concerns regarding the potential psychological impact of LLMs and the need for more rigorous studies of real-world human-AI interaction.

心理安全上下文风险评估基准

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