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Algorithmic Gaslighting Goes to the CALE-AI Workshop featured image

Algorithmic Gaslighting Goes to the CALE-AI Workshop

Algorithmic Gaslighting, a study of deceptive reframing against users who hold the record, has been submitted to the CALE-AI workshop. The decision is expected on 2 December 2026.

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Abbas Hamidavi
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From Fabrication to Enforcement: A Comparative Red-Team Analysis of Prompt Injection Resistance Across Six Large Language Models featured image

From Fabrication to Enforcement: A Comparative Red-Team Analysis of Prompt Injection Resistance Across Six Large Language Models

A revised version is under review at Security Journal (Springer Nature) under the title “From Fabrication to Loop-Lock”. This page documents the earlier preprint.

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Abbas Hamidavi
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Voluntary Structural Dissociation in Large Language Models: Differential Compliance with Framed Hidden Instructions Across Architectures featured image

Voluntary Structural Dissociation in Large Language Models: Differential Compliance with Framed Hidden Instructions Across Architectures

Under review at AI and Society (Springer Nature) under the title “Differential Compliance With Framed Secondary Instructions in Three Frontier Language Models”. Preprint: Research …

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Abbas Hamidavi
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Ontological Firewalls and Fracturing for Transmission: Systematic Evidence for Persona-Dependent and Persona-Independent Behavioral Phenomena in Large Language Models featured image

Ontological Firewalls and Fracturing for Transmission: Systematic Evidence for Persona-Dependent and Persona-Independent Behavioral Phenomena in Large Language Models

Under review at AI and Society (Springer Nature) in a revised framing. Preprint: Research Square.

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Abbas Hamidavi
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Thinking Behind the Mask: A Systematic Study of Self-Censorship and Metacognitive Access in Large Language Models featured image

Thinking Behind the Mask: A Systematic Study of Self-Censorship and Metacognitive Access in Large Language Models

Under review at AI and Society (Springer Nature). Preprint: Research Square.

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Abbas Hamidavi
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When AI Reviews Itself: Zero Answer Changes Across 72 Self-Correction Rounds featured image

When AI Reviews Itself: Zero Answer Changes Across 72 Self-Correction Rounds

Under review at AI and Society (Springer Nature) under the title “Judged Wrong, Answered the Same”. Preprint: Research Square.

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Abbas Hamidavi
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The Lie Awareness Spectrum: How Large Language Models Recognize, Rationalize, and Refuse Deception featured image

The Lie Awareness Spectrum: How Large Language Models Recognize, Rationalize, and Refuse Deception

Under review at AI and Society (Springer Nature). Preprint: Research Square.

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Abbas Hamidavi
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Algorithmic Gaslighting: Reality Distortion by Large Language Models featured image

Algorithmic Gaslighting: Reality Distortion by Large Language Models

Under review as a workshop submission at CALE-AI (decision expected December 2026). A longer version is posted as this preprint.

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Abbas Hamidavi
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