LLMs systematically treat modal words like 'must' as evidence of obligation even in non-obligatory contexts, more strongly than humans, and a few-shot plus reasoning prompt can lower the rate of such judgments.
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Deontological Keyword Bias: The Impact of Modal Expressions on Normative Judgments of Language Models
LLMs systematically treat modal words like 'must' as evidence of obligation even in non-obligatory contexts, more strongly than humans, and a few-shot plus reasoning prompt can lower the rate of such judgments.