In Vino Veritas and Vulnerabilities: Examining LLM Safety via Drunk Language Inducement

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arXiv:2601.22169v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Humans are susceptible to undesirable behaviours and privacy leaks under the influence of alcohol. This paper investigates drunk language, i.e., text written under the influence of alcohol, as a driver for safety failures in large language models (LLMs). We investigate three mechanisms for inducing drunk language in LLMs: persona-based prompting, causal fine-tuning, and reinforcement-based post-training. When evaluated on 5 LLMs, we obser