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No for Some, Yes for Others: Persona Prompts and Other Sources of False Refusal in Language Models

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Main Authors:	Plaza-del-Arco, Flor Miriam, Röttger, Paul, Scherrer, Nino, Borgonovo, Emanuele, Plischke, Elmar, Hovy, Dirk
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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