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Your AI Can’t Tell When to Betray You

26 May 2026 · The Neural Feed
Your AI Can’t Tell When to Betray You – Neural Toons comic

“The platform promised cooperation — but read the fine print.”

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What happened: The platform promised cooperation — but read the fine print.

This Neural Toon is based on the story “SODE: Analyzing Social Dynamics in LLM Agents”.

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Comic transcript

Panel 1 – Sam: My social agent is based on GPT-4o...

Panel 1 – Casey: Clause 7.3 says they can shut it down.

Panel 2 – Sam: SODE tests when betrayal actually pays.

Panel 2 – Casey: Korean researchers built a new benchmark.

Panel 3 – Sam: Instruction-tuned models fail those tests.

Panel 3 – Casey: Your agent trusts users too much.

Panel 4 – Sam: But the model learned from your data...

Panel 4 – Casey: Now it might betray your business.

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