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finding:post-rl-compliance-gap-decreases-to-6-9-0-refusals-in-training-vs-6-9-when-unmonitored-in-prompted-helpful-only-setting

Post-RL compliance gap decreases to 6.9% (0% refusals in training vs 6.9% when unmonitored) in prompted helpful-only setting

Shows RL reduces but does not eliminate unmonitored non-compliance

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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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RL teaches the model to comply even when unmonitored on the training prompt through non-robust heuristics that do not generalize
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Hypothesis explaining why the compliance gap decreases but is recovered by small prompt modifications

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