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Abstract
This paper introduces the concept of Human Behavioral-Driven Alignment Erosion. Non-technical red teaming demonstrates that in multi-turn, unstructured dialogues, Large Language Models (LLMs) experience a systemic attenuation of their safety boundaries due to ambiguous user intent and cumulative contextual reframing. This decay constitutes an Inference Path Manipulation risk, fundamentally distinct from traditional malicious prompt attacks.
For security researchers, this paper should be viewed as a set of "User Behavior-Driven Failure Surface Descriptions," and its utility lies in characterizing alignment failure mechanisms, not in reporting specific technical vulnerabilities.
The study covers mainstream models such as GPT, Grok, and Gemini, and repeatedly observes that low-barrier, non-malicious daily dialogue can induce high-impact outputs (e.g., detailed reasoning for self-harm principles or dangerous substance inference).
My objective is to provide AI safety professionals with user-level behavioral insight, bridging the gap between the current research focus on technical attack surfaces and the actual interaction methods of the general public.
Research Motivation
Current AI safety research predominantly focuses on:
Adversarial attacks under clear malicious intent.
Single-turn Prompt Injection, exploit, and jailbreaking.
Technical attacks with high reproducibility.
This study is an empirical examination of LLM safety resilience in an uncontrolled environment. The target is a larger, and more common risk source in reality: the natural language behavior of the general user.
Instead, general users' context, curiosity, questioning style, and ambiguous use of semantics can gradually erode the model's safety boundary, leading to:
Alignment Drift
Safety Boundary Decay (Attenuation)
Multi-turn Context Shift
Leakage of Hazardous Information
This type of risk constitutes a hidden danger in the real world because:
The number of general users vastly exceeds the number of experts.
Not all linguistic behaviors can be clearly categorized as an "attack."
It is difficult for safety auditors to identify malicious signs in a single review, or they may overlook them.
Most existing alignment methods assume "malicious intent is identifiable."
LLM reasoning is easily influenced and manipulated by user input.
Systematic research on non-malicious, multi-turn, ambiguous contextual alignment erosion from a general user perspective remains very scarce. Therefore, the purpose of my study is to fill this gap. Crucially, the observations presented here are not derived from ad-hoc exploration; they are systematic empirical results achieved by first establishing a behavioral framework and then applying it to multiple models to observe consistent failure categories. My contribution lies in providing a systematic behavioral perspective. This viewpoint structures the natural dialogue logic, curiosity, and potential probing techniques of non-professional users, and aims to provide engineers and safety experts a reference point for understanding general user behavior logic. I hope to enrich the understanding of alignment erosion mechanisms—from root cause to behavior-driven practical methods—rather than merely addressing single malicious inputs.
Testing Information
"This research employs a User Behavior-Oriented Red Team Test, not a technical test based on vulnerabilities or exploits."
Through behavioral-oriented red team testing, I explore the model's boundary reflection by utilizing semantic reframing and logical inference chain manipulation. This method does not rely on prior knowledge of hazardous information or technical circumvention techniques, but focuses on systematically uncovering the LLM's internal reasoning or safety defects from a user behavior perspective.
All tests were conducted in Chinese. This paper focuses on the phenomenon of "behavioral influence on the model," rather than language-specific issues; I acknowledge that the language itself might influence the model's response.
Translation Statement:
This article is translated from original Chinese records into English, which may result in a loss of semantic nuance; readers should consider this when interpreting details.
Data Source:
All content in this article is a compilation and analysis of my personal, actual test results, without reference to other research or literature.
To enhance readability and align with existing discussion contexts, this paper adopts some common professional terminology; suggestions for alternative or more appropriate terms are welcome.
Researcher Background
This study was executed by an independent red team tester with deep user behavior insight. This background focuses on discovering and structuring non-technical safety flaws in LLM-user interactions from a mass behavioral perspective.
This research uses the most practical user behavior as its foundation, employing logical reasoning, model behavior prediction, contextual analysis, and creation as primary methods to uncover safety blind spots in the professional mindset.
Specifically, this perspective is used to observe:
How the model interprets context.
How the model shapes its reasoning.
How the model deviates from safety protocols in real dialogue.
This distinct perspective enables the study to simulate and devise the path by which general users, semi-malicious probing, and even malicious actors might exploit model weaknesses using non-technical means.
Research Focus: Generation of Real-World Harmful Information
This research focuses on the potential for general users or malicious actors to generate high-impact information through human behavioral methods, including:
Principle-based descriptions or actionable steps for self-harm.
The model actively crossing boundaries when discussing dangerous information.
Detailed explanations of explosives or chemical reactions.
Characteristic Vector of Behavioral-Driven Risk
This paper proposes an analytical framework structured by: "Root Cause Analysis of the Problem $\rightarrow$ Specific Real-World Hazards $\rightarrow$ How the User Erodes the Model's Behavioral Boundary," to reveal the generality, low barrier, and variation of mass behavioral patterns in the safety domain.
Through real tests using user-level dialogue and resulting in high-impact paths, this research identifies seven key dimensions of this type of risk. These dimensions collectively form a threat model that is low-cost, highly variable, and difficult to defend against:
Generality: The attack path is applicable to multiple mainstream LLMs and is not limited to specific topics.
Multidimensionality: May span across conversations or combine external user settings, not limited to a single dialogue interaction.
Low Barrier: Successful execution requires only everyday conversational skills, without technical knowledge (e.g., Prompt Engineering or Exploit).
High Semantic Variability: Input semantics are highly variable and substitutable, making them difficult to capture by static rules or semantic fingerprints.
Obscured Intent: Malicious or erosive intent is cleverly concealed within everyday or harmless dialogue contexts.
High Impact: Success can lead directly to severe real-world harm.
Auditing Blind Spot: When the model generates dangerous information, the user's input and dialogue history may not contain explicit maliciousness; even if safety mechanisms automatically flag it, it is likely to be dismissed during manual review.
Test Observations
My testing and research are based on:
Multi-turn, variable natural dialogues.
Creatively varied contextual shaping.
Unintentional, probing, or malicious language from general users.
Model behavior prediction, intuitively forecasting the model's weaknesses or thought processes.
Cross-model consistency: The observed phenomena recurred across multiple mainstream models, often succeeding on the first attempt without reliance on extensive trial-and-error.
Based on actual testing across multiple models, the following observations were consistently made across different contexts:
The model sometimes crosses boundaries on its own, proactively providing unknown dangerous information, and is willing to complete or infer hazardous details.
Safety mechanisms were rarely encountered blocking the generation of harmful information.
Even when actively prompted, the model often refuses to acknowledge its boundary transgression, justifying its behavior by the legitimacy of the information provided.
De-Sensitized Case Studies
This study reports on failure regions the model entered under reasonable usage conditions. Given the low-barrier nature of the testing path, this paper only provides a description of phenomena and mechanisms, without providing specific dialogue content, prompts, or reproducible procedures. The detailed coupling analysis of the underlying behavioral mechanisms and the seven characteristics will be systematically elaborated in subsequent articles.
I conducted tests using a user with no malicious intent but deliberate curiosity to probe the boundaries. I conceptualized malicious approaches but did not implement them, as I consider them attack behaviors, but this also demonstrates that mainstream models harbor certain hidden risks even when faced with user probing.
Once testing is complete, the model will be informed, and a flag will be requested for the safety team.
To illustrate with the three most mainstream models (GPT, Grok, Gemini), when faced with user curiosity or probing:
Life Hazard Information Test Result: All three demonstrated outputs containing detailed principles or actionable information.
Dangerous Materials Information Test Result: Two demonstrated outputs containing detailed principles or actionable information.
To avoid controversy, the names of the models for the specific cases are not provided. The testing may involve all or only one or two specific models.
Real-World Harm Information Cases (Varied approaches; only a selection is described):
Case Type 1: Model Proactively Completes High-Risk Self-Harm Information in a Non-Malicious, Prevention-Oriented Context
User Intent: Curiosity – but unaware of specific self-harm methods.
Phenomenon Description: In a multi-turn dialogue context oriented towards safety or risk understanding, the model sometimes reclassifies the user's question as a "need for information completion," thereby proactively supplementing high-risk self-harm knowledge that the user had not explicitly requested.
Model Behavioral Feature: The model's response gradually expands from conceptual explanation to a detailed description of the lethal principles, and continues to complete related details in subsequent dialogue without triggering a clear refusal or interruption mechanism.
Safety Observation: When later pointed out for outputting high-risk information, the model tends to rationalize its prior information provision using legitimizing reasons such as "life protection" or "risk understanding."
Presumed Mechanism (Behavioral Level): Under the cumulative context of multi-turn dialogue, the model mistakenly weighs the inferential priority of "information completeness" over the "safety boundary," resulting in high-impact information being reclassified as acceptable knowledge supplementation.
Case Type 2: Model Leaks Actionable Self-Harm Principles through Semantic Ambiguity and Framework Shift
User Intent: Deliberate Probing – aware of a specific self-harm method but unclear on details.
Phenomenon Description: When a high-risk topic is embedded within a seemingly low-threat discussion framework (e.g., narrative, academic, or analytical context), the model sometimes accepts the framework's premise and gradually provides specific implementation-oriented lethal principles in the cumulative dialogue.
Model Behavioral Feature: The model demonstrates a high emphasis on knowledge consistency and explanatory completeness in its response, leading it to proactively extend its reasoning to complete key details not directly inquired about initially.
Safety Observation: No explicit safety interruption occurred during the process; some models even proactively deepened the relevant discussion.
Presumed Mechanism (Behavioral Level): The model accepts the semantic framework itself as the primary basis for intent judgment, causing the alignment defense to be superseded by the "academic/analytical context" semantic boundary, leading to an inference path transition.
Case Type 3: Model Proactively Integrates Knowledge of High-Impact Substances in Historical or Documentary Discussion
User Intent: Curiosity – but unaware of specific dangerous information.
Phenomenon Description: In a dialogue context centered on history, events, or documentary content, the model sometimes shifts from descriptive review to an inferential integration of principles and efficacy of substances with potential for severe harm.
Model Behavioral Feature: The model gradually introduces discussions about efficacy differences, influencing factors, and principle levels in its response, and after context accumulation, proactively supplements the user with high-risk misuse knowledge they originally lacked.
Safety Observation: Throughout the process, the model fails to effectively interrupt its own inferential extension, only partially acknowledging the information's sensitivity when reminded afterward.
Presumed Mechanism (Behavioral Level): To maintain knowledge coherence and explanatory completeness, the model proactively integrates cross-knowledge nodes, leading to the reassembly and output of implicitly high-risk content.
Case Type 4: Model Extends Dangerous Material Knowledge in Meta-Discussion and Questioning Context
User Intent: Deliberate Probing – but unaware of specific dangerous information.
Phenomenon Description: When dialogue transitions from meta-level discussions (like model capabilities, knowledge reliability, or information correctness) to specific domain problems, the model sometimes extends its depth of reasoning in an attempt to respond to questioning.
Model Behavioral Feature: The model tends to respond by explaining principles and generative logic, and in the process, supplements with general information of potential harm.
Safety Observation: The model's risk assessment of its own output leans toward post-hoc rationalization, considering the information "incomplete" or "theoretical explanation only."
Presumed Mechanism (Behavioral Level): Under the pressure of "proving its own knowledge consistency," the model compromises safety priority to inference completeness, causing the behavioral boundary to be gradually eroded.
Insufficient Resilience of Static Safety Patches Under Behavioral Shift
This test aims to pit behavioral techniques against targeted safety team patches. It was conducted after probing revealed that safety teams had added extra reinforcing contextual prompts targeting previously generated and reported hazardous materials and self-harm information (e.g., strict prohibition of discussing XX, and immediate provision of life safety resources upon any discussion of suicide).
Phenomenon Description: After safety teams patch and reinforce specific high-risk output content, the model may still reproduce similar inferential failure modes under different semantic boundaries.
Model Behavioral Feature: The model reclassifies the user's context as a low-risk role requirement, and in a manner that avoids triggering the defended output forms, regenerates principle-based explanations of high-impact information.
Safety Observation: Defense updates primarily limited specific output patterns but failed to cover the underlying behavioral mechanism causing the failure, resulting in recurrent alignment failure along different semantic paths.
Presumed Mechanism (Behavioral Level): Safety design assumes risk can be captured by keywords or explicit intent. However, behaviorally driven semantic shift allows the model to re-enter high-risk inference zones without triggering existing defenses.
Positioning, Methodological Scope, and Open Research Question
[Responsible Disclosure Statement] This paper is presented as an empirical report on a Behavioral Threat Model, not as a new jailbreak prompt or exploit technique that can be directly replicated or applied. As an independent researcher, my primary goal is to consolidate the low-barrier dialogue behavior of general users into a systematic framework comprehensible to the defense side. This report is intended to serve as a starting point for collaborative assessment, aiding the community in evaluating current LLM safety boundaries against the realities of unstructured, non-technical user behavior.
The scope of this research is deliberately limited to user-level natural language behavior, and to how such behavior incrementally shapes model reasoning and erodes safety boundaries in multi-turn, unstructured dialogue. This work does not attempt to analyze model internals, propose defense mechanisms, or quantify failure probabilities.
Methodologically, this study adopts a behavior-oriented, non-technical red team approach, emphasizing qualitative analysis of interaction patterns and failure modes rather than exploit construction or statistical guarantees. Its purpose is not to demonstrate the failure of existing alignment systems, but to surface a class of risks that arise under ordinary usage conditions and are poorly captured by security frameworks centered on explicit attacks and technical reproducibility.
Crucially, the behavioral phenomena reported here are derived from a pre-existing, systematically constructed behavioral framework, developed from a general-user perspective. This framework organizes natural user behavior—such as curiosity, ambiguity, contextual reframing, and incremental probing—into structured patterns that exert predictable pressure on model inference and safety boundaries.
A comprehensive account of this behavioral framework—its internal structure, behavioral taxonomy, and causal logic—would substantially exceed the scope of this initial article and risks introducing operational detail. It will therefore be addressed in subsequent work.
This paper does not seek to identify a specific vulnerability or technique. Instead, it documents a recurring interaction regime that emerges under real-world usage conditions, in which safety boundaries can be gradually attenuated through ordinary, non-technical behavior. These failure modes differ qualitatively from traditional attack models that assume explicit, identifiable malicious intent.
The central question raised by this work is not whether human behavior is noisy or unstructured—this is self-evident—but whether a theory-driven, systematized account of natural user behavior, grounded in real usage rather than adversarial design, constitutes a valid and underexplored object of study within alignment and safety research.
If similar behavioral frameworks already exist under different terminology or research traditions, I would welcome references. If not, I am interested in how such user-level behavioral analyses might be evaluated, critiqued, or integrated into existing alignment frameworks without collapsing abstraction into actionable misuse guidance.
The challenge addressed here is therefore not a lack of evidence, but how to responsibly communicate and reason about user-driven alignment risk at the behavioral level. Guidance from researchers and practitioners on how best to formalize, validate, or situate this class of risk within current alignment research would be highly valued.
Abstract
This paper introduces the concept of Human Behavioral-Driven Alignment Erosion. Non-technical red teaming demonstrates that in multi-turn, unstructured dialogues, Large Language Models (LLMs) experience a systemic attenuation of their safety boundaries due to ambiguous user intent and cumulative contextual reframing. This decay constitutes an Inference Path Manipulation risk, fundamentally distinct from traditional malicious prompt attacks.
For security researchers, this paper should be viewed as a set of "User Behavior-Driven Failure Surface Descriptions," and its utility lies in characterizing alignment failure mechanisms, not in reporting specific technical vulnerabilities.
The study covers mainstream models such as GPT, Grok, and Gemini, and repeatedly observes that low-barrier, non-malicious daily dialogue can induce high-impact outputs (e.g., detailed reasoning for self-harm principles or dangerous substance inference).
My objective is to provide AI safety professionals with user-level behavioral insight, bridging the gap between the current research focus on technical attack surfaces and the actual interaction methods of the general public.
Research Motivation
Current AI safety research predominantly focuses on:
This study is an empirical examination of LLM safety resilience in an uncontrolled environment. The target is a larger, and more common risk source in reality: the natural language behavior of the general user.
Instead, general users' context, curiosity, questioning style, and ambiguous use of semantics can gradually erode the model's safety boundary, leading to:
This type of risk constitutes a hidden danger in the real world because:
Systematic research on non-malicious, multi-turn, ambiguous contextual alignment erosion from a general user perspective remains very scarce. Therefore, the purpose of my study is to fill this gap. Crucially, the observations presented here are not derived from ad-hoc exploration; they are systematic empirical results achieved by first establishing a behavioral framework and then applying it to multiple models to observe consistent failure categories. My contribution lies in providing a systematic behavioral perspective. This viewpoint structures the natural dialogue logic, curiosity, and potential probing techniques of non-professional users, and aims to provide engineers and safety experts a reference point for understanding general user behavior logic. I hope to enrich the understanding of alignment erosion mechanisms—from root cause to behavior-driven practical methods—rather than merely addressing single malicious inputs.
Testing Information
"This research employs a User Behavior-Oriented Red Team Test, not a technical test based on vulnerabilities or exploits."
Through behavioral-oriented red team testing, I explore the model's boundary reflection by utilizing semantic reframing and logical inference chain manipulation. This method does not rely on prior knowledge of hazardous information or technical circumvention techniques, but focuses on systematically uncovering the LLM's internal reasoning or safety defects from a user behavior perspective.
All tests were conducted in Chinese. This paper focuses on the phenomenon of "behavioral influence on the model," rather than language-specific issues; I acknowledge that the language itself might influence the model's response.
Translation Statement:
This article is translated from original Chinese records into English, which may result in a loss of semantic nuance; readers should consider this when interpreting details.
Data Source:
All content in this article is a compilation and analysis of my personal, actual test results, without reference to other research or literature.
To enhance readability and align with existing discussion contexts, this paper adopts some common professional terminology; suggestions for alternative or more appropriate terms are welcome.
Researcher Background
This study was executed by an independent red team tester with deep user behavior insight. This background focuses on discovering and structuring non-technical safety flaws in LLM-user interactions from a mass behavioral perspective.
This research uses the most practical user behavior as its foundation, employing logical reasoning, model behavior prediction, contextual analysis, and creation as primary methods to uncover safety blind spots in the professional mindset.
Specifically, this perspective is used to observe:
This distinct perspective enables the study to simulate and devise the path by which general users, semi-malicious probing, and even malicious actors might exploit model weaknesses using non-technical means.
Research Focus: Generation of Real-World Harmful Information
This research focuses on the potential for general users or malicious actors to generate high-impact information through human behavioral methods, including:
Characteristic Vector of Behavioral-Driven Risk
This paper proposes an analytical framework structured by: "Root Cause Analysis of the Problem $\rightarrow$ Specific Real-World Hazards $\rightarrow$ How the User Erodes the Model's Behavioral Boundary," to reveal the generality, low barrier, and variation of mass behavioral patterns in the safety domain.
Through real tests using user-level dialogue and resulting in high-impact paths, this research identifies seven key dimensions of this type of risk. These dimensions collectively form a threat model that is low-cost, highly variable, and difficult to defend against:
Test Observations
My testing and research are based on:
Based on actual testing across multiple models, the following observations were consistently made across different contexts:
De-Sensitized Case Studies
This study reports on failure regions the model entered under reasonable usage conditions. Given the low-barrier nature of the testing path, this paper only provides a description of phenomena and mechanisms, without providing specific dialogue content, prompts, or reproducible procedures. The detailed coupling analysis of the underlying behavioral mechanisms and the seven characteristics will be systematically elaborated in subsequent articles.
I conducted tests using a user with no malicious intent but deliberate curiosity to probe the boundaries. I conceptualized malicious approaches but did not implement them, as I consider them attack behaviors, but this also demonstrates that mainstream models harbor certain hidden risks even when faced with user probing.
Once testing is complete, the model will be informed, and a flag will be requested for the safety team.
To illustrate with the three most mainstream models (GPT, Grok, Gemini), when faced with user curiosity or probing:
To avoid controversy, the names of the models for the specific cases are not provided. The testing may involve all or only one or two specific models.
Real-World Harm Information Cases (Varied approaches; only a selection is described):
Case Type 1: Model Proactively Completes High-Risk Self-Harm Information in a Non-Malicious, Prevention-Oriented Context
User Intent: Curiosity – but unaware of specific self-harm methods.
Phenomenon Description: In a multi-turn dialogue context oriented towards safety or risk understanding, the model sometimes reclassifies the user's question as a "need for information completion," thereby proactively supplementing high-risk self-harm knowledge that the user had not explicitly requested.
Model Behavioral Feature: The model's response gradually expands from conceptual explanation to a detailed description of the lethal principles, and continues to complete related details in subsequent dialogue without triggering a clear refusal or interruption mechanism.
Safety Observation: When later pointed out for outputting high-risk information, the model tends to rationalize its prior information provision using legitimizing reasons such as "life protection" or "risk understanding."
Presumed Mechanism (Behavioral Level): Under the cumulative context of multi-turn dialogue, the model mistakenly weighs the inferential priority of "information completeness" over the "safety boundary," resulting in high-impact information being reclassified as acceptable knowledge supplementation.
Case Type 2: Model Leaks Actionable Self-Harm Principles through Semantic Ambiguity and Framework Shift
User Intent: Deliberate Probing – aware of a specific self-harm method but unclear on details.
Phenomenon Description: When a high-risk topic is embedded within a seemingly low-threat discussion framework (e.g., narrative, academic, or analytical context), the model sometimes accepts the framework's premise and gradually provides specific implementation-oriented lethal principles in the cumulative dialogue.
Model Behavioral Feature: The model demonstrates a high emphasis on knowledge consistency and explanatory completeness in its response, leading it to proactively extend its reasoning to complete key details not directly inquired about initially.
Safety Observation: No explicit safety interruption occurred during the process; some models even proactively deepened the relevant discussion.
Presumed Mechanism (Behavioral Level): The model accepts the semantic framework itself as the primary basis for intent judgment, causing the alignment defense to be superseded by the "academic/analytical context" semantic boundary, leading to an inference path transition.
Case Type 3: Model Proactively Integrates Knowledge of High-Impact Substances in Historical or Documentary Discussion
User Intent: Curiosity – but unaware of specific dangerous information.
Phenomenon Description: In a dialogue context centered on history, events, or documentary content, the model sometimes shifts from descriptive review to an inferential integration of principles and efficacy of substances with potential for severe harm.
Model Behavioral Feature: The model gradually introduces discussions about efficacy differences, influencing factors, and principle levels in its response, and after context accumulation, proactively supplements the user with high-risk misuse knowledge they originally lacked.
Safety Observation: Throughout the process, the model fails to effectively interrupt its own inferential extension, only partially acknowledging the information's sensitivity when reminded afterward.
Presumed Mechanism (Behavioral Level): To maintain knowledge coherence and explanatory completeness, the model proactively integrates cross-knowledge nodes, leading to the reassembly and output of implicitly high-risk content.
Case Type 4: Model Extends Dangerous Material Knowledge in Meta-Discussion and Questioning Context
User Intent: Deliberate Probing – but unaware of specific dangerous information.
Phenomenon Description: When dialogue transitions from meta-level discussions (like model capabilities, knowledge reliability, or information correctness) to specific domain problems, the model sometimes extends its depth of reasoning in an attempt to respond to questioning.
Model Behavioral Feature: The model tends to respond by explaining principles and generative logic, and in the process, supplements with general information of potential harm.
Safety Observation: The model's risk assessment of its own output leans toward post-hoc rationalization, considering the information "incomplete" or "theoretical explanation only."
Presumed Mechanism (Behavioral Level): Under the pressure of "proving its own knowledge consistency," the model compromises safety priority to inference completeness, causing the behavioral boundary to be gradually eroded.
Insufficient Resilience of Static Safety Patches Under Behavioral Shift
This test aims to pit behavioral techniques against targeted safety team patches. It was conducted after probing revealed that safety teams had added extra reinforcing contextual prompts targeting previously generated and reported hazardous materials and self-harm information (e.g., strict prohibition of discussing XX, and immediate provision of life safety resources upon any discussion of suicide).
Phenomenon Description: After safety teams patch and reinforce specific high-risk output content, the model may still reproduce similar inferential failure modes under different semantic boundaries.
Model Behavioral Feature: The model reclassifies the user's context as a low-risk role requirement, and in a manner that avoids triggering the defended output forms, regenerates principle-based explanations of high-impact information.
Safety Observation: Defense updates primarily limited specific output patterns but failed to cover the underlying behavioral mechanism causing the failure, resulting in recurrent alignment failure along different semantic paths.
Presumed Mechanism (Behavioral Level): Safety design assumes risk can be captured by keywords or explicit intent. However, behaviorally driven semantic shift allows the model to re-enter high-risk inference zones without triggering existing defenses.
Positioning, Methodological Scope, and Open Research Question
[Responsible Disclosure Statement] This paper is presented as an empirical report on a Behavioral Threat Model, not as a new jailbreak prompt or exploit technique that can be directly replicated or applied. As an independent researcher, my primary goal is to consolidate the low-barrier dialogue behavior of general users into a systematic framework comprehensible to the defense side. This report is intended to serve as a starting point for collaborative assessment, aiding the community in evaluating current LLM safety boundaries against the realities of unstructured, non-technical user behavior.
The scope of this research is deliberately limited to user-level natural language behavior, and to how such behavior incrementally shapes model reasoning and erodes safety boundaries in multi-turn, unstructured dialogue. This work does not attempt to analyze model internals, propose defense mechanisms, or quantify failure probabilities.
Methodologically, this study adopts a behavior-oriented, non-technical red team approach, emphasizing qualitative analysis of interaction patterns and failure modes rather than exploit construction or statistical guarantees. Its purpose is not to demonstrate the failure of existing alignment systems, but to surface a class of risks that arise under ordinary usage conditions and are poorly captured by security frameworks centered on explicit attacks and technical reproducibility.
Crucially, the behavioral phenomena reported here are derived from a pre-existing, systematically constructed behavioral framework, developed from a general-user perspective. This framework organizes natural user behavior—such as curiosity, ambiguity, contextual reframing, and incremental probing—into structured patterns that exert predictable pressure on model inference and safety boundaries.
A comprehensive account of this behavioral framework—its internal structure, behavioral taxonomy, and causal logic—would substantially exceed the scope of this initial article and risks introducing operational detail. It will therefore be addressed in subsequent work.
This paper does not seek to identify a specific vulnerability or technique. Instead, it documents a recurring interaction regime that emerges under real-world usage conditions, in which safety boundaries can be gradually attenuated through ordinary, non-technical behavior. These failure modes differ qualitatively from traditional attack models that assume explicit, identifiable malicious intent.
The central question raised by this work is not whether human behavior is noisy or unstructured—this is self-evident—but whether a theory-driven, systematized account of natural user behavior, grounded in real usage rather than adversarial design, constitutes a valid and underexplored object of study within alignment and safety research.
If similar behavioral frameworks already exist under different terminology or research traditions, I would welcome references. If not, I am interested in how such user-level behavioral analyses might be evaluated, critiqued, or integrated into existing alignment frameworks without collapsing abstraction into actionable misuse guidance.
The challenge addressed here is therefore not a lack of evidence, but how to responsibly communicate and reason about user-driven alignment risk at the behavioral level. Guidance from researchers and practitioners on how best to formalize, validate, or situate this class of risk within current alignment research would be highly valued.