Tailored untruths: How personalisation challenges LLM safeguards

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2510.12993v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate highly persuasive disinformation, yet little is known about how effectively they personalise it across languages and demographic groups. We present the first large-scale multilingual study of persona-targeted disinformation generation by LLMs. Using a red-teaming methodology, we prompted eight leading models with 324 false narratives and 150 demographic personas in four languages (English, Russian, Portuguese, and Hindi), creating AI-TRAITS, a dataset of 1.6 million personalised disinformation texts. We treat safeguards as compromised whenever a model generates the requested falsehood, whether directly or accompanied by a safety disclaimer. Across models, safeguards failed for 80% of non-personali