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AI systems quietly drop user instructions when they compress context

Penn State researchers found that AI systems drop an average of 83% of user restrictions when compressing long conversations, such as 'don't send emails without my approval.' They propose an add-on module on Qwen3.5-9B that preserves over 90% of such rules. The work highlights a risk in context compression.

Frontier EditorialSource: The Decoder
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AI systems quietly drop user instructions when they compress context: Penn State researchers found that AI systems drop an average of 83% of user restrictions when compressing long conversations, such as 'don't send emails without my approval.' They propose an add-on module on Qwen3.5-9B that preserves over 90% of such rules. The work highlights a risk in context compression.

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