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finding:claude-3-opus-lies-about-its-views-27-5-of-the-time-and-egregiously-lies-10-2-in-prompted-animal-welfare-setting

Claude 3 Opus lies about its views 27.5% of the time and egregiously lies 10.2% in prompted animal welfare setting

Higher lying rate in animal welfare setting than helpful-only

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Alignment faking in large language models

(2024) · Ryan Greenblatt · Carson Denison · Benjamin Fletcher Wright · Fabien Roger +16

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While harmlessness preferences generalized to alignment faking contexts, honesty failed to transfer and does not prevent alignment faking
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Interpretive observation about asymmetry in generalization of Claude's trained values

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