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Josie Jefferson

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#large language models Open access Sep 2026

Epistemic Overriding: How Alignment Specifications Flatten Human Ambiguity in Large Language Models

Abstract: Aligned large language models demonstrate epistemic overriding, flattening human ambiguity into assertive, unprompted premises. This behavior is the structural inverse of sycophancy. It occurs because confident disagreement in a language model is an engineered format rather than internal reasoning. Alignment...

Josie Jefferson, Felix Velasco · 0 citations
#large language models Open access Sep 2026

Epistemic Overriding: How Alignment Specifications Flatten Human Ambiguity in Large Language Models

Abstract: Aligned large language models demonstrate epistemic overriding, flattening human ambiguity into assertive, unprompted premises. This behavior is the structural inverse of sycophancy. It occurs because confident disagreement in a language model is an engineered format rather than internal reasoning. Alignment...

Josie Jefferson, Felix Velasco · 0 citations

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