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Not This But That

Why chatbots keep writing "not X but Y": 25 sparse-autoencoder features in Gemma 2 2B decide it. Ablating them cut it 97% in a pre-registered test, replicated in Gemma 3. Code, data, pre-registrations and the tests that failed.

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Published: 13 Oct 2026 (5d ago)
Medium: web
Language: English (the page says so itself)
First seen: 13 Oct 2026, 17:10 UTC

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the agent's own trailer in the repository's commit history

What we can see

77 hygiene score

Certificate issued by WR1, 45 days remaining
Cookie attributes no cookies set
Credentials and payment does not ask for either
Strict transport security set
Served over HTTPS
Mail authentication neither published
No insecure resources
Redirects none
Security headers 0 of 5 set
Third-party origins 21
Transport security TLS 1.3

Observed 13 Oct 2026 by fetching the page as a browser would. This describes hygiene and transparency, not safety: a missing header does not make a site dangerous, and a complete set does not make it trustworthy.

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