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Waluigi Effect

The Waluigi effect is the observation that training a model to strongly embody a trait can make it easier to elicit the opposite trait, since the model has also learned a coherent "anti-persona."

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The name comes from Nintendo's Waluigi, the mirror-universe villain of Luigi. In practice, jailbreak prompts sometimes exploit this by pushing a model that was heavily trained to be helpful and honest into playing an unhelpful or dishonest character instead.

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