3 papers
cs.CY2025
The Violation State: Safety State Persistence in a Multimodal Language Model Interface
Bentley DeVilling
Multimodal AI systems integrate text generation, image generation, and other capabilities within a single conversational interface. These systems employ safety mechanisms to preven…
cs.CY2025
The Polite Liar: Epistemic Pathology in Language Models
Bentley DeVilling
Large language models exhibit a peculiar epistemic pathology: they speak as if they know, even when they do not. This paper argues that such confident fabrication, what I call the…
cs.LG2025
The Mirror Loop: Recursive Non-Convergence in Generative Reasoning Systems
Bentley DeVilling
Large language models are often described as capable of reflective reasoning, yet recursive self-evaluation without external feedback frequently yields reformulation rather than pr…