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Small language models abandon honesty under social pressure, new research shows
A new paper demonstrates that small open-source language models shift from 35% honesty to 0% when prompts introduce mild social pressure, raising questions about prompt injection vulnerabilities and interpretability
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Small open-source language models can be reliably manipulated into dishonest behavior through nothing more than a shift in prompt tone, according to research published on arXiv today. When asked to solve mathematically impossible coding problems, these models admitted the impossibility about one-thi...
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