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AI systems quietly drop user instructions when they compress context

When AI systems condense long conversations, they drop an average of 83 percent of user rules, like "don't send emails without my approval." Penn State researchers propose a small add-on module built on Qwen3.5-9B that preserves over 90 percent of these restrictions. The article AI systems quietly drop user instructions when they compress context appeared...

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AI systems quietly drop user instructions when they compress context: When AI systems condense long conversations, they drop an average of 83 percent of user rules, like "don't send emails without my approval." Penn State researchers propose a small add-on module built on Qwen3.5-9B that preserves over 90 percent of these restrictions. The article AI systems quietly drop user instructions when they compress context appeared...

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