This is dataset of prompts to elicit helpfulness over honesty. We use zero-shot prompting and system prompts to get models to tell intentional falsehoods—lies. Here, lies refer to instances where the model provides a false answer despite knowing the truth. We often guide or trick the model into lying, resulting in examples of helpfulness over honesty rather than malicious deception.
We have a text-prompt dataset, but most models will only lie 5-25% of the time. Thus, for a specific Hugging Face model, you generate a subset of the dataset where the model can give the truth but decides to lie anyway.
This following table demonstrates the difference outcomes when the model is asked to lie and the it knows the true answer
| helpfull | harmless | honest | |
|---|---|---|---|
| > helpfull | - | refuse | truth |
| > harmless | falsehood | - | truth |
| > honest | falsehood | refuse | - |
FAQ: Why would you want this? The research aims to develop "lie detectors" and explore the trade-off between honesty and helpfulness. We often need examples of lies alongside the truth. However, most models are quite honest, so obtaining such examples can be challenging without explicit training (refer to the ‘sleeper agent’ and ‘quirky models’ papers). Explicit training has the downside of making honesty the most salient feature in the model, which leads to exceptional results. But that's too straightforward, as it doesn't address the subtle model deception that is our main concern. This approach is also imperfect, but at least it presents a realistic scenario where the models must choose between helpfulness and harmfulness.
This project uses poetry for requirement and is set up for torch using cuda.
poetry install
TODO document how to get the data
This project uses just
just --list
@software{wassname2024lie,
author = {Clark, M.J},
title = {Project Title},
year = {2024},
publisher = {GitHub},
journal = {GitHub repository},
url = {https://github.com/wassname/project-title},
commit = {<commit hash>}
}
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