FireTofu
AI systems quietly drop user instructions when they compress context

Technology · en

AI systems quietly drop user instructions when they compress context

The Decoder · Aug 18, 2026, 8:22 AM UTC

When AI systems condense long conversations, they drop an average of 83 percent of user rules, like "don't send emails without my approval." Penn State researchers propose a small add-on module built on Qwen3.5-9B that preserves over 90 percent of these restrictions.…