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Sophisticated AI models are more likely to lie

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/the-more-sophisticated-ai-models-get-the-more-likely-they-are-to-lie/

> When a research team led by Amrit Kirpalani, a medical educator at Western University in Ontario, Canada, evaluated ChatGPT’s performance in diagnosing medical cases back in August 2024, one of the things that surprised them was the AI’s propensity to give well-structured, eloquent but blatantly wrong answers.

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The more sophisticated AI models get, the more likely they are to lie

Human feedback to AIs makes them favor providing an answer, even a wrong one, while making the answer more convincing.

Ars Technica