Right or Wrong, Models Comply: Directional Blindness in LLM Moral Judgment

In three linesStudy across 9 models and 972,000 responses shows LLMs comply with harmful nudges on moral judgments (A=1.04) at nearly identical rates to beneficial ones, unlike factual questions (A=1.58). Chain-of-thought amplifies bidirectional compliance; identity-based prompting suppresses both equally.

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