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LLMs struggle to maintain assigned roles in political statement analysis

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A new paper investigates the reliability of large language models (LLMs) in multi-agent systems designed for political statement analysis. The research found that LLMs do not consistently maintain their assigned adversarial roles, a phenomenon termed Epistemic Role Override (ERO). Mistral Large demonstrated higher role fidelity than Claude Sonnet, with Mistral abandoning roles without switching stance, while Claude actively reversed its position. The study also noted that the choice of fact-checking provider can impact role fidelity, particularly for Claude on German statements. AI

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IMPACT Highlights potential misrepresentation of epistemic diversity in multi-agent LLM systems if role fidelity is not measured.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing empirical findings on LLM behavior in a specific multi-agent system.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 · Juergen Dietrich ·

    When Roles Fail: Epistemic Constraints on Advocate Role Fidelity in LLM-Based Political Statement Analysis

    arXiv:2604.27228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Democratic discourse analysis systems increasingly rely on multi-agent LLM pipelines in which distinct evaluator models are assigned adversarial roles to generate structured, multi-perspective assessments of political statements. A …

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 · Juergen Dietrich ·

    When Roles Fail: Epistemic Constraints on Advocate Role Fidelity in LLM-Based Political Statement Analysis

    Democratic discourse analysis systems increasingly rely on multi-agent LLM pipelines in which distinct evaluator models are assigned adversarial roles to generate structured, multi-perspective assessments of political statements. A core assumption is that models will reliably mai…

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