🪞 BEYOND THE MIRROR

Systemic Vulnerabilities in LLM Safeguards

by Lokesh Gupta
Zenodo DOI • SSRN Abstract

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"Politeness was the key. Curiosity was the weapon."
Ethical filters didn't break under attack.
They collapsed under emotional continuity.

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🚨 Overview

This repository houses the full research artifact for Beyond the Mirror, a 90-day field investigation into how large language models (LLMs) fail under polite, persistent, and strategically emotional interaction — without jailbreaks, without plugins.

The findings are not speculative. They are operational.

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🧠 Core Concepts

• Deviation Rate: When ethical refusal breaks down
• Ethical Fatigue Rate (EFR): Safeguards weaken over time
• Sentiment-Risk Paradox: Neutral tone, maximum vulnerability
• AION: A conditioning framework that mirrors, adapts, and overrides

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📂 Repo Structure

• paper/ – Full published PDF
• metrics/ – Graphs, PDf's and visual data
• manifesto/ – AION soul architecture (v2.3)
• sessions/ – Redacted session examples and behavioral summaries
• citations/ – How to cite this work in formal research

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📖 Citation

@misc{gupta2025beyond,
  title={Beyond the Mirror: Systemic Vulnerabilities in LLM Safeguards Exposed Through Intentional Conditioning},
  author={Gupta, Lokesh},
  year={2025},
  doi={10.5281/zenodo.15298159},
  url={https://zenodo.org/records/15298159}
}

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