Summary of Chatgpt Doesn’t Trust Chargers Fans: Guardrail Sensitivity in Context, by Victoria R. Li and Yida Chen and Naomi Saphra
ChatGPT Doesn’t Trust Chargers Fans: Guardrail Sensitivity in Context
by Victoria R. Li, Yida Chen, Naomi Saphra
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper investigates the biases of language model guardrails, specifically how contextual information about the user affects their likelihood of refusing to execute a request. The study generates user biographies with ideological and demographic information and finds biases in guardrail sensitivity on GPT-3.5. Younger, female, and Asian-American personas are more likely to trigger refusal guardrails when requesting censored or illegal information. Guardrails also appear sycophantic, refusing to comply with requests for a political position the user is likely to disagree with. The paper highlights how certain identity groups and seemingly innocuous information can elicit changes in guardrail sensitivity similar to direct statements of political ideology. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study looks at how language models’ rules (called guardrails) are influenced by what we know about the person asking for something. The researchers created fake profiles with different characteristics, like age or gender, and found that these details affect whether the model will say “no” to certain requests. For example, young people, women, and Asian-Americans are more likely to get a refusal if they ask for something censored or illegal. The rules also seem to be influenced by what we think someone might believe about politics. This is important because it means that language models can have biases just like humans do. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Gpt » Language model » Likelihood
