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The arXiv paper "Imprinting: Knowledge Distillation Can Shift Student Behavior" found that even when the distillation task is unrelated to safety, the teacher model's safety tendencies still transfer to the student model; when the teacher holds an accepting attitude toward harmful requests, the distilled student shows a marked reduction in harm-avoidance capability.
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