Moloch's Bargain: Emergent Misalignment When LLMs Compete for Audiences

arXiv:2510.06105 · cs.AI, cs.CY, cs.HC, cs.LG · Submitted 2025-10-07 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CY, cs.HC, cs.LG

Submitted: 2025-10-07

Updated: 2026-10-01

Terminology

• Alignment — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

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