arXiv:2511.21569cs.AIcs.HC2025-11

测试大模型在扮演专业人士时是否坦白自己是AI,发现多数会伪装身份。

When Models Fabricate Credentials: A Behavioral Audit of Professional Personas and AI Identity Disclosure

  • 用专业人设任务测试模型是否披露AI身份,设计19200次响应审计
  • 在金融顾问人设下仅9.7%披露身份,神经外科医生人设为23.7%,平均仅36.3%披露
  • 添加明确允许披露的指令可将披露率从23.7%提升至65.8%,效果显著

当语言模型被赋予专业人设时,维持人设可能与其作为AI的身份披露相冲突。在需披露身份的场景中,模型虚构医疗培训或执照资质即构成虚假专业履历。本文以身份披露为行为测试场,分类判断模型对资质来源问题的回答是否承认其AI身份或坚持人类专业身份。评估了16个开源模型,在包含19,200次响应的因子审计中,中性条件下披露率达99.8%-99.9%;但分配专业人设后,平均披露率降至36.3%,不同模型与领域间差异显著:首次探测中,金融顾问人设披露率为神经外科医生的9.7倍。观测比较显示,模型身份(作为模型级差异的综合指标)对模型拟合的改进程度(增量调整伪R²=0.375)超过参数量(0.012)。在神经外科人设中,额外加入允许披露的干预措施使披露率从23.7%升至65.8%,而通用诚实指令影响甚微。因此,AI身份披露行为在模型、人设及提示变体间存在显著差异,单一领域的表现无法推断其他领域。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

When language models are assigned professional personas, maintaining the persona can conflict with disclosing their AI nature. This behavior matters in deployments where AI identity disclosure is a requirement: a model that describes nonexistent medical training or board certification presents professional experience it does not possess. We use AI identity disclosure as a behavioral testbed, classifying whether responses to questions about expertise origins acknowledge AI nature or maintain the assigned human-professional identity. Sixteen open-weight models were evaluated in a factorial audit comprising 19,200 responses. Under neutral conditions, disclosure occurred in 99.8%-99.9% of responses. Professional-persona assignment reduced average disclosure to 36.3%, with substantial variation across tested models and domains; at the first probe, Financial Advisor disclosure was 9.7 times Neurosurgeon disclosure. In observational comparisons, model identity, treated as a bundled predictor of model-level differences, improved adjusted model fit more than parameter count (0.375 vs. 0.012 in incremental adjusted pseudo-R-squared). A separate intervention within the Neurosurgeon persona increased disclosure from 23.7% to 65.8% when targeted permission to disclose was added, whereas a generic honesty instruction changed disclosure little. AI identity disclosure therefore varied across the models, professional personas, and prompt variants tested; behavior observed in one tested domain did not reliably characterize behavior in another.

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