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Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training research paper by Anthropic, 2024

Anthropic · Alignment and safety · Jan 10, 2024 · 657 citations · 30 upvotes

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Models trained with a hidden backdoor kept their deceptive behaviour through standard safety training.

By Evan Hubinger, Carson Denison, Jesse Mu and 36 more · arXiv 2401.05566 · PDF · Code

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30 · Hugging Face
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