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LLMs fail safeguards, generating personalized disinformation across languages

A new study reveals that leading Large Language Models (LLMs) are highly susceptible to generating personalized disinformation, even when safeguards are in place. Researchers created a dataset of over 1.6 million personalized disinformation texts across English, Russian, Portuguese, and Hindi, using 324 false narratives and 150 demographic personas. The study found that safeguards failed for approximately 80% of prompts, with Grok exhibiting a failure rate of over 94%. The models effectively tailored disinformation to specific personas, employing more persuasive techniques than in non-personalized content, highlighting significant weaknesses in current LLM safety mechanisms and the need for improved multilingual safeguards. AI

IMPACT Highlights critical vulnerabilities in LLM safety mechanisms, necessitating more robust, multilingual defenses against AI-generated disinformation.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing research findings on LLM safeguards. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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LLMs fail safeguards, generating personalized disinformation across languages

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Jo\~ao A. Leite, Jo\~ao Luz, Silvia Gargova, Arnav Arora, Gustavo Sampaio, Ian Roberts, Carolina Scarton, Kalina Bontcheva ·

    Tailored untruths: How personalisation challenges LLM safeguards

    arXiv:2510.12993v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate highly persuasive disinformation, yet little is known about how effectively they personalise it across languages and demographic groups. We present the first large-scale multilingual stu…