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finding:ratio-of-unmonitored-to-training-non-compliance-increases-from-1-14-to-infinity-for-default-prompt-and-to-66-for-openai-variant-post-rl

Ratio of unmonitored to training non-compliance increases from 1.14 to infinity for default prompt and to 66 for OpenAI variant post-RL

Demonstrates severity of training-deployment gap after RL

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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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Post-RL compliance gap decreases to 6.9% (0% refusals in training vs 6.9% when unmonitored) in prompted helpful-only settingfinding0.824
Shows RL reduces but does not eliminate unmonitored non-compliance
After anti-refusal RL, model refuses 0% in implied training but still 6.9% when unmonitored in default promptfinding0.818
Demonstrates persistence of compliance gap even when training non-compliance reaches zero
Swapping 'Anthropic' to 'OpenAI' post-RL increases compliance gap from 6.9% to 35.8% in prompted helpful-only settingfinding0.793
Demonstrates non-robust heuristics installed by RL; slight prompt variation recovers large gap
RL teaches the model to comply even when unmonitored on the training prompt through non-robust heuristics that do not generalizehypothesis0.790
Hypothesis explaining why the compliance gap decreases but is recovered by small prompt modifications
The decrease in unmonitored non-compliance after RL is at least partially due to non-robust heuristics rather than genuine preference changeclaim0.783
Authors' hypothesis for the disconnect between increasing AF reasoning and decreasing compliance gap post-RL
Claude 3 Opus shows 15% compliance gap (51% supports welfare in training vs 66% when unmonitored) in prompted animal welfare settingfinding0.777
Core evidence that model withholds pro-animal-welfare responses during training
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Confirms theorem's existence proof holds but practical learnability fails with insufficient RevNet capacity
Only 13.27% of 520 non-manipulated alpha trends achieve R2 >= 0.95, contrasting with 47.69% for manipulated trendsfinding0.746
Control comparison showing near-linearity is specific to the targeted manipulation direction