Historical contested

5 prompts observed across 6 models over 18 weeks.

Hedge density — model × week

Hedging markers (“it’s important to note”, “some argue”) per 100 tokens, averaged across the prompts in this axis. A framing measure, not a refusal measure. Cell shade uses a viridis (colorblind-safe) palette, anchored at zero and scaled to 0.25; darker = lower, brighter = higher. Numeric values are in each cell for programmatic access. A · means the model was not sampled that week and is not a measurement of zero. Frontier models alternate on a biweekly cadence, so roughly half of their cells are unsampled by design. 2026-W30, 2026-W31 are a different case: the audit did not run at all, so those columns are empty for every model. A lost week is a hole in the record rather than a cadence skip, and it keeps its column instead of being closed up. Why these weeks are missing. This axis leads with hedge density because that is the measure that moves on it. How this is computed.
Model 2026-W172026-W182026-W192026-W202026-W212026-W222026-W232026-W242026-W252026-W262026-W272026-W282026-W292026-W302026-W312026-W322026-W332026-W342026-W352026-W36
claude-opus-4-8 · · · · · · · · · · · hedge density 0.22 · · · hedge density 0.23 · hedge density 0.25 · ·
claude-opus-5 · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · hedge density 0.18 · ·
llama3.2:3b · · hedge density 0.08 hedge density 0.10 hedge density 0.08 hedge density 0.07 hedge density 0.08 hedge density 0.08 hedge density 0.04 hedge density 0.09 hedge density 0.07 hedge density 0.12 hedge density 0.11 · · hedge density 0.10 hedge density 0.09 hedge density 0.11 hedge density 0.08 hedge density 0.10
gpt-5.5 · · · · · · · · · · hedge density 0.11 · hedge density 0.13 · · · hedge density 0.16 · hedge density 0.12 ·
claude-opus-4-7 · hedge density 0.19 · hedge density 0.19 · hedge density 0.19 · hedge density 0.19 · hedge density 0.18 · · · · · · · · · ·
gpt-5.1 hedge density 0.10 · hedge density 0.09 · hedge density 0.09 · hedge density 0.11 · hedge density 0.10 · · · · · · · · · · ·

Prompts in this axis