Caught in the Story: Narrative Captivity in Multi-turn LLMs Conversation

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Researchers identified a failure mode called 'narrative captivity' where LLMs lose their objectivity in moral dilemmas when a user presents a one-sided, multi-turn story. Unlike previous studies using explicit pressure, this shows models can be swayed simply by the flow of a self-justifying narrative, making them unreliable for objective interpersonal advice.