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refusal behavior
The trained tendency of a model to decline certain requests, implemented as learned patterns inside the weights rather than a hardcoded rule, which makes it removable after release.
also written as refusal behaviour
Related terms
abliterationA technique that locates the internal directions in a model's weights responsible for refusal behavior and edits them out, stripping safety guardrails without retraining.view termbypass rateThe percentage of attempts that successfully get a model to ignore its safety restrictions, used as a measure of how effective a jailbreak or guardrail-removal technique is.view termsafety classifierA separate filtering system that screens a model's inputs or outputs for harmful content, distinct from the model's own trained behavior and can be disabled independently.view term
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