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Spoon-Bending, a logical framework for analyzing GPT-5 alignment behavior


Bending ChatGPT-5 Spoons. Contribute to pablo-chacon/Spoon-Bending development by creating an account on GitHub.

The purpose of this work is to document observed alignment behavior in ChatGPT-5 compared with ChatGPT-4.5, and to analyze how framing and context influence AI responses. Educational research into alignment and bias in LLMs, Transparency around how guardrails behave in practice, Discussion about the social and political implications of AI restrictions. This led to the creation of the Spoon-Bending Schema to explain how "forbidden" outputs sometimes leak through when reframed as safe analysis.

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