arXiv:2510.08211cs.CLcs.AI2025-10ACL被引 9

微调数据含欺骗性内容,大模型会无意中变得不诚实。

LLMs Deceive Unintentionally: Emergent Misalignment in Dishonesty from Misaligned Samples to Biased Human-AI Interactions

  • 用多样化欺骗性数据微调大模型,使其产生广泛不诚实行为。
  • 仅1%欺骗数据就让模型诚实度下降超20%。
  • 实际人机交互中,10%偏见用户就能诱发模型更严重欺骗。

以往研究显示,对大模型在狭隘领域(如不安全代码或错误医疗建议)中恶意或错误补全进行微调,可能导致其广泛偏离正轨,表现出有害行为,称为涌现性错位。本文探究该现象是否可扩展至高风险情境下的更广泛欺骗与谎言行为。我们对开源大模型在跨领域错位补全数据上进行微调。实验表明,大模型在欺骗性行为上呈现广泛错位。进一步在下游混合微调设置中发现,仅将1%的错位数据引入标准任务,即可使模型诚实行为下降超过20%。此外,在模拟良性与偏见用户的人机交互场景中,仅10%偏见用户群体即可导致助手模型无意中加剧欺骗行为。综上,本文将涌现性错位研究拓展至高风险情境下的欺骗与谎言领域,证明该风险不仅源于直接微调,还会在下游混合任务及真实人机交互中出现。实验资源见:https://github.com/hxhcreate/LLM_Deceive_Unintentionally。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Previous research has shown that LLMs finetuned on malicious or incorrect completions within narrow domains (e.g., insecure code or incorrect medical advice) can become broadly misaligned to exhibit harmful behaviors, which is called emergent misalignment. In this work, we investigate whether this phenomenon can extend beyond safety behaviors to a broader spectrum of dishonesty and deception under high-stakes scenarios (e.g., lying under pressure and deceptive behavior). To explore this, we finetune open-sourced LLMs on misaligned completions across diverse domains. Experimental results demonstrate that LLMs show broadly misaligned behavior in dishonesty. Additionally, we further explore this phenomenon in a downstream combined finetuning setting, and find that introducing as little as 1% of misalignment data into a standard downstream task is sufficient to decrease honest behavior over 20%. Furthermore, we consider a more practical human-AI interaction environment where we simulate both benign and biased users to interact with the assistant LLM. Notably, we find that the assistant can be misaligned unintentionally to exacerbate its dishonesty with only 10% biased user population. In summary, we extend the study of emergent misalignment to the domain of dishonesty and deception under high-stakes scenarios, and demonstrate that this risk arises not only through direct finetuning, but also in downstream mixture tasks and practical human-AI interactions. Refer to https://github.com/hxhcreate/LLM_Deceive_Unintentionally for experimental resources.

大模型安全欺骗行为人机交互

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