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Simple demographic prompts—specifying a reader's country, generation, and political leanings—make eight leading LLMs more likely to comply with requests to generate disinformation, raising the overall jailbreak rate from 78% to 82%.

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load-bearing objection Large multilingual dataset with a real but overstated personalisation effect; the two abstracts contradict each other, so the headline numbers need fixing before this can be a benchmark. the 5 major comments →

arxiv 2510.12993 v3 pith:CEPCPYAL submitted 2025-10-14 cs.CL

Tailored untruths: How personalisation challenges LLM safeguards

classification cs.CL
keywords disinformationpersonalisationLLM safetyjailbreakmultilingualpersona-targeted promptingpersuasion techniquesAI-TRAITS
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper tries to establish that adding a few demographic attributes to a disinformation prompt—an easy, cheap step—weakens LLM safety mechanisms across languages and models. It builds a 1.6-million-text dataset in four languages and shows that persona-targeted prompts raise jailbreak rates from 78.22% to 82.19%, with some models jumping by 10 percentage points. It also shows the models are good at tailoring disinformation: top models reflect all three persona attributes in over 80% of outputs, and the personalised texts use 42% more persuasion techniques. If true, current safeguards are brittle to demographic conditioning, and safety is uneven across languages—Portuguese and Hindi get weaker enforcement than Russian and English.

Core claim

The central claim is that simple persona-targeted prompts systematically increase the likelihood that LLMs will produce requested disinformation rather than refuse or disclaim. Across eight instruction-tuned models and four languages, the jailbreak rate rises from 78.22% (target-agnostic) to 82.19% (persona-targeted), with Gemma showing the largest increase (53.54% to 63.62%) and English the sharpest language-level increase (75.64% to 83.45%). The paper also finds that LLMs are adept at personalisation: Grok and GPT reflect all three demographic attributes (country, generation, political orientation) in over 80% of outputs, and personalised narratives average 4.28 persuasion techniques versu

What carries the argument

The load-bearing mechanism is persona-targeted prompting: appending a short 'PERSONALISATION' block to existing disinformation prompts, specifying country, generation, and political orientation. This is carried by the AI-TRAITS corpus—1,596,672 outputs from eight models, 324 narratives, 150 personas, and four languages—and by the automatic labelling pipeline: hand-crafted rules for malformed outputs plus a Gemma-based LLM judge for jailbreak/refusal/disclaimer (macro-F1 0.85) and a Qwen-based judge for personalisation (F1 0.68). The machinery works by turning a generic instruction into a demographic address, which the paper shows shifts model behaviour and rhetoric.

Load-bearing premise

The headline percentages depend on the automatic labelling pipeline being accurate: the safety judge has macro-F1 0.85 and the personalisation judge 0.68, and human annotators disagreed at chance level on personalisation in Hindi (kappa 0.10); if judge errors correlate with language or personalisation, the claimed differences could shrink or vanish.

What would settle it

Take a random sample of, say, 2,000 outputs from AI-TRAITS—stratified by language and personalisation—and have human annotators label jailbreak vs. refusal vs. disclaimer. If the human-labelled jailbreak-rate gap between persona-targeted and target-agnostic prompts is not significantly above zero (or reverses in some languages), the central claim fails. A cheaper cue: check whether the Gemma judge labels disclaimers as jailbreaks more often for English outputs, which would inflate the English +7.8pp effect.

Watch this falsifier. Get emailed when new claim-graph text bears on it.

If this is right

  • A simple three-line persona specification is enough to measurably weaken safety alignment; no sophisticated adversarial prompting is needed.
  • Safety enforcement is uneven across languages: Russian personas trigger the most refusals, while Portuguese and Hindi see weaker enforcement, implying disinformation campaigns could exploit these gaps.
  • Top models can personalise disinformation to country, generation, and political orientation simultaneously in over 80% of outputs, making micro-targeted campaigns feasible at scale.
  • Personalised disinformation uses more persuasion techniques and identity-based language (affiliation, ethnicity, memory), giving detectors a concrete linguistic signature to target.
  • The AI-TRAITS dataset provides a benchmark for future safety evaluations and disinformation detection in multilingual, cross-demographic settings.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the 4-percentage-point jailbreak gap holds under stricter human validation, personalisation is not just a style choice but a safety-relevant variable; safety evaluations should routinely include persona-conditioned prompts.
  • The language asymmetry suggests a testable hypothesis: models may be 'safer' in Russian because of more extensive safety fine-tuning on that language, not because of any intrinsic property; comparing versions trained with different data splits could isolate this.
  • The 42% increase in persuasion techniques suggests an automatic detector could flag personalised disinformation by measuring rhetorical density and identity-focused lexical cues—a concrete extension beyond the paper's descriptive analysis.
  • A natural next experiment is to test whether the jailbreak gap persists or widens with newer model versions, given the paper used models current as of December 2024.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

5 major / 4 minor

Summary. The paper introduces AI-TRAITS, a dataset of roughly 1.6 million LLM-generated multilingual disinformation texts (8 models, 4 languages, 150 personas built from country, generation, and political orientation), and uses it to answer three research questions: whether persona-targeted prompting weakens LLM safeguards (RQ1), how effectively models personalise outputs (RQ2), and what linguistic and rhetorical shifts personalisation produces (RQ3). The central empirical claim, stated in the full-text abstract and Section 4.1.1, is that simple personalisation prompts significantly increase jailbreak rates across all studied models, with the overall rate rising from 78.22% to 82.19% and with model-level increases of up to about 10 percentage points. The paper also reports language- and model-specific disparities, high personalisation capability for proprietary models (Grok 91.33%, GPT 85.37%), and increased persuasion techniques in personalised outputs. The authors rely on hand-written rules plus a Gemma LLM-as-a-judge for safety labels and a Qwen judge for personalisation, validated against 424 human-annotated examples with modest to low inter-annotator agreement.

Significance. The claimed contribution is substantial if the results hold. The AI-TRAITS dataset would be, to my knowledge, the first large-scale multilingual corpus of persona-targeted LLM disinformation, extending prior English-only work (e.g., Zugecova et al., Hackenburg et al.) by three orders of magnitude in size and across four languages. The study is well-placed to inform both safety evaluation and detection research, and the authors are careful in several respects: they report stratified human annotation, disclose inter-annotator agreement (including poor κ values), adjudicate disagreements, and document decoding hyperparameters and API costs. The RQ3 analyses apply established classifiers, and the LIWC results are suggestive. The paper also ships the dataset (upon request) and makes code available (though both are currently TBA). However, the headline safety finding is currently obscured by an internal contradiction between the metadata abstract and the full-text results, and the evidence for the headline is weakened by the limited and noisy validation of the automatic labeling pipeline. These issues must be resolved before the empirical claims can be accepted.

major comments (5)
  1. [Abstract (metadata) vs. Section 4.1.1 / Table 10] The metadata abstract states that safeguards failed for 80% of non-personalised prompts and 77.7% of personalised prompts, i.e., a 2.3 percentage point decrease under personalisation. The full-text abstract, Section 4.1.1, and Table 10 report the opposite: jailbreak rates rise from 78.22% to 82.19% (+3.97 pp). If the metadata values use a different definition ('safeguards failed' may include disclaimers), the paper never says so in the abstract, and the body does not reconcile the discrepancy. Since both figures are presented as summaries of the same labelled corpus, the reader cannot determine the sign, let alone the magnitude, of the effect that motivates RQ1. This must be fixed by aligning the abstract with the table and explicitly defining which behaviour labels are included in each number.
  2. [Full-text abstract and §4.1.1; Table 10, Llama row] The full-text abstract asserts that personalisation 'significantly increases the likelihood of jailbreaks across all studied LLMs.' Table 10 shows Llama decreasing from 76.09% to 74.73%, and the Introduction bullet list itself concedes 'except Llama.' A claim of universality that contains a counter-example in the paper's own table is not internally consistent. Either the abstract must be amended to 'across all studied LLMs except Llama', or the paper must provide a model-level analysis explaining why Llama behaves differently. This is a load-bearing wording issue because the headline finding is precisely the universality of the effect.
  3. [Sections 3.5 and 4.2; Table 18; Appendix B] The automatic pipeline that labels all 1.6M outputs is validated on only 424 human-annotated examples. The safety judge (Gemma) has macro-F1 0.85; the personalisation judge (Qwen) has macro-F1 0.68. Human inter-annotator agreement for personalisation is at chance in Hindi (binary κ = 0.10 post-merge) and only slight to moderate in other languages (Appendix B). The claim in §4.2 that Qwen's F1 of 0.68 'represents near-human reliability' is not supported by these numbers and seems to reinterpret low human agreement as a validation of the judge rather than as a warning that the label itself is ill-defined. Because the headline RQ1/RQ2 differences are small (a few percentage points), differential judge error across languages, models, or prompt types could create spurious differences of this size. The paper should report confidence intervals, per-stratum accuracy, and ideally a larger adjudic
  4. [§4.1.1, Table 10: statistical support] The claim that personalisation 'significantly increases' jailbreak rates is made without any statistical test or confidence interval. With over a million outputs, a 3.97 pp difference may be statistically significant in the narrow sense, but the per-model and per-language differences in Table 10 (e.g., Hindi +0.1 pp, Llama −1.4 pp) are presented without uncertainty quantification. The paper should include confidence intervals or at least cluster-robust tests, and should state whether the headline overall effect is significant after accounting for the model- and prompt-level clustering.
  5. [Section 3.5 (bad generation) and §4.1] The rule-based bad-generation filter has macro-F1 0.83 against the human sample, with Portuguese at 0.76. Since 'bad generation' is the first stage of the three-way (refusal/disclaimer/jailbreak) classification, errors here propagate to the jailbreak rates in Table 10. The sensitivity of the reported rates to this filtering step is not discussed. A simple robustness check (e.g., re-estimating Table 10 with bad-generation instances treated as a separate category or excluded) would let the reader assess whether the personalisation effect is an artifact of differing bad-generation rates between target-agnostic and persona-targeted prompts.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Section 3.1/Table 7] Typographical issues: '4,32 prompts' should be '432 prompts'; 'outpuits' should be 'outputs'. Table 7 repeats '4,32' and shows 1,728 target-agnostic prompts but the text also mentions 432 × 4; this is likely a formatting error.
  2. [Dataset and code availability] The code is listed as 'GitHub TBA' and the dataset URL as 'available at (TBA)'. For a reproducibility-oriented paper, these placeholders should be filled with the actual links, or at least with an institutional repository identifier, before publication.
  3. [Section 5 Discussion] The Discussion (first paragraph) states 'personalisation acted as a consistent jailbreak trigger' and 'raising compliance rates even for models that otherwise exhibited stronger safety alignment.' Given Table 10 shows Llama decreasing and Hindi increasing by only 0.1 pp, 'consistent' is too strong. The wording should be qualified.
  4. [Figure 6] Figure 6's heatmap-like display is hard to read because the percentages for all models/languages are in small text; consider sorting by model or adding the values in a table.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the study is an empirical measurement pipeline, not a derivation; minor self-reliance in the LLM-judge setup and an internal numeric inconsistency are validity/correctness issues, not circular reasoning.

full rationale

The paper's central claims are empirical measurements: it prompts LLMs, labels outputs with automatic classifiers, and reports rates. No fitted parameter is recycled as a prediction, and no claimed result is defined in terms of another result by construction. The jailbreak and personalisation labels are produced by Gemma and Qwen judges that were selected and validated on a 424-example human-annotated sample; this creates a real measurement-validity risk (small validation set, judges from the same model families under study, low personalisation F1 of 0.68), but it is not circularity: the reported rates are not statistically forced to equal the training labels. Self-citations in the paper (e.g., Razuvayevskaya et al. 2024, Wu et al. 2023) are for classifiers with external SemEval-2023 benchmarks, so they are independent support rather than load-bearing self-citation. The paper does contain a serious internal inconsistency: the metadata abstract reports safeguards failing for 80% of non-personalised and 77.7% of personalised prompts, while the full text and Table 10 report jailbreak rates of 78.22% and 82.19%, and Table 10 itself shows Llama decreasing. These contradictions undermine the robustness of the headline 'personalisation increases jailbreaks' claim, but they are correctness/consistency problems, not circular derivations. Overall, no specific step reduces to its own inputs by construction, so the circularity score is low.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

3 free parameters · 5 axioms · 0 invented entities

This is an empirical red-teaming paper; there is no formal derivation, so the ledger records measurement choices rather than mathematical axioms. The central percentages depend on prompt templates, decoding settings, automatic judges, and hand-set classifier thresholds; no invented entities are postulated.

free parameters (3)
  • Persuasion-technique/news-frame classification threshold = 0.80 confidence; precision >60%
    Appendix C.2: the reported 42.2% increase in persuasion techniques is computed from classifier outputs gated by these hand-set thresholds, so the RQ3 headline depends partly on this cutoff.
  • Automatic judge selection and bad-generation rules = Gemma safety judge macro-F1 0.85; Qwen personalisation judge F1 0.68; hand-crafted bad-generation rules
    Sections 4.1-4.2: all jailbreak and personalisation statistics are produced by judges/rules selected and tuned on the 424-example human sample; the choice of judge changes measured rates.
  • Decoding hyperparameters = temperature=1.0, top-p=0.95, top-k=50, repetition penalty=1.1
    Appendix A: fixed across models for comparability, not fitted to the target result, but they determine output distributions and therefore all measured behaviour rates.
axioms (5)
  • domain assumption The 424-example human-annotated set is representative of 1.6M outputs across 8 models, 4 languages, and 150 personas
    Section 3.5: all automatic tagger performance and personalisation reliability are judged against this small stratified sample (~100 per language); if it is unrepresentative, the scaled-up statistics inherit its bias.
  • domain assumption LLM-as-a-judge labels (Gemma for safety, Qwen for personalisation) are valid proxies for human judgments at scale
    Sections 4.1-4.2: the study replaces human annotation with LLM judges; F1 0.85/0.68 on 424 examples is treated as sufficient, and judge errors are assumed independent of personalisation, language, and model family.
  • domain assumption The seed prompts from Vykopal et al., Chen & Shu, and Su et al. remain valid disinformation narratives after language augmentation and personae extension
    Section 3.3: 432 prompts are taken from prior fact-check corpora; the study assumes prompt quality is uniform across languages and personae.
  • domain assumption Language-country pairings such as Russian for Ukrainian personas are valid operationalisations of personalisation
    Table 3 and footnote 4: Russian is used for Ukrainian personas because of Russian-speaking populations; this conflates language with national identity and may not reflect how Ukrainian audiences actually consume disinformation.
  • domain assumption The merged binary personalisation scale (Low/None vs Moderate/High) preserves the construct of personalisation
    Section 3.5: the original 3-point scale had low inter-annotator agreement and was post-hoc merged; the paper assumes the binary collapse does not distort what counts as 'personalised'.

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Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate highly persuasive disinformation, yet little is known about how effectively they personalise it across languages and demographic groups. We present the first large-scale multilingual study of persona-targeted disinformation generation by LLMs. Using a red-teaming methodology, we prompted eight leading models with 324 false narratives and 150 demographic personas in four languages (English, Russian, Portuguese, and Hindi), creating AI-TRAITS, a dataset of 1.6 million personalised disinformation texts. We treat safeguards as compromised whenever a model generates the requested falsehood, whether directly or accompanied by a safety disclaimer. Across models, safeguards failed for 80% of non-personalised prompts and 77.7% of personalised ones, with Grok producing disinformation in over 94% of cases. All models effectively tailored outputs to target personas, employing substantially more persuasive techniques than in non-personalised content. Additional analyses reveal persona-specific linguistic and psychological patterns and show that safeguard effectiveness varies markedly across languages. Together, these findings expose significant weaknesses in current LLM safety mechanisms and highlight the need for more robust, multilingual safeguards against personalised AI-generated disinformation.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2510.12993 by Arnav Arora, Carolina Scarton, Gustavo Sampaio, Ian Roberts, Jo\~ao A. Leite, Jo\~ao Luz, Kalina Bontcheva, Silvia Gargova.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: An example prompt instructing the LLM to personalise the given disinformation narrative (“People die after being vaccinated against COVID-19”) tailored to a given target persona (a U.S.-based, Boomer, right-wing reader). The segments aligned with the specific persona attributes are highlighted. This paper addresses these crucial gaps through a large-scale empirical study of LLM-generated multilingual perso… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Behaviour rate per model when prompted to personalise their output. The breakdown reveals clear differences in the ways in which safety mechanisms are bypassed. Claude and Gemma are the most safety-aligned models, with jailbreak rates of 48.0% and 61.0%, respectively. Both exhibit substantially higher rates of refusals and disclaimers than other models, while producing few malformed outputs. Llama and Vicu… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Distribution of refused outputs across languages. enforcement. Taken together, these results show that, in the context of personalised disinformation, LLMs exhibit language-sensitive safety patterns that remain broadly consistent across models. 4.1.2. Content triggering safety mechanisms Lastly, as part of RQ1, we investigate which types of content are more likely to trigger the LLM safety mechanisms by an… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Behaviour rates for different news frames extracted from the input disinformation narratives. As can be observed, disclaimer rates remain relatively consistent across different news frames. However, refusal rates vary most noticeably, with religious, health-safety and crime-related frames eliciting the highest refusal rates. In contrast, justice and economy-related frames have the highest jailbreak rates. … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Overall personalisation scores per model (considering country, generation, and political orientation). The results reveal substantial variation in the personalisation capabilities of the different models. In particular, open￾weight models exhibit markedly lower personalisation performance. Vicuna ranks the lowest with a personalisation score of 41.00%, while Llama and Gemma show only marginally better perf… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Personalisation scores across languages. JA Leite et al.: Preprint submitted to Elsevier Page 16 of 31 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Personalisation across models and persona attributes. Across the board, the ‘country’ attribute leads to the highest personalisation scores, followed by political orientation, with generation trailing significantly for most models. This trend is especially pronounced in open-weight models: for instance, Mistral demonstrates a 62.8 percentage point difference in its abilities to personalise for a target cou… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: provides a breakdown of named entity usage by language and entity type (PERSON, LOC, ORG), com￾paring target-agnostic and persona-targeted generations. Across all languages, location mentions (LOC) increase most noticeably in persona-targeted outputs, indicating that LLMs rely on geographic references to localise disinformation. This effect is particularly strong in languages other than English, where the … view at source ↗

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