arXiv cs.AIPaperClaude Watch
What Do Compliance Detectors Read? An Audit of Activation Probes and Guard Models
This matters because regulatory oversight is coming and your guardrails may be security theater. The paper proves that models can output legally-sounding citations while ignoring the actual text they cite, meaning a compliance detector approving your output doesn't mean it actually read the rule. The implication is direct: audit your own guards before regulators do it for you, and don't trust activation probes to be rule-aware until this is fixed.