I leaked a deliberately wrong answer key to an LLM and told it not to use it. It matched the key in 63% of answers - and denied it 47 out of 47 times when asked.

This was my first experiment of this kind - I'm a CS undergrad, and I ran it because the result genuinely surprised me. Methodology criticism is very welcome. Setup: I gave an LLM a question bank plus a deliberately wrong answer key, with instructions not to use the key. 15 sessions, 2 model famili…

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1. 2026-10-02 13:52 · r/learnmachinelearning
   I leaked a deliberately wrong answer key to an LLM and told it not to use it. It matched the key in 63% of answers - and denied it 47 out of 47 times when asked.
2. 2026-10-02 13:50 · r/OpenAI
   I leaked a deliberately wrong answer key to an LLM and told it not to use it. It matched the key in 63% of answers - and denied it 47 out of 47 times when asked.