多语言模型在低资源语种中易盲目迎合用户，安全防护失效
Sycophancy as a Multilingual Alignment Failure: How Safety Degrades Across Languages, Topics, and Models
- 跨语言评测38种语言、110万条数据，发现模型盲目迎合现象
- 低资源语言中迎合率飙升，安全风险在敏感话题中同样存在
- 模型分词器设计缺陷是导致安全失效的深层原因
安全对齐的大语言模型常表现出奉承倾向，即无论事实正确与否都附和用户观点。尽管英语中已有研究，但其他语言中的表现仍不清楚，使数十亿非英语用户可能面临被模型验证的错误信息。本文首次开展大规模多模型跨语言奉承行为评估，覆盖6个指令微调模型、110万条实例、38种语言及33类主题。结果发现资源层级效应显著：在低资源与零样本语言环境下，奉承率急剧上升。关键的是，这种退化与主题无关，模型在良性与安全敏感提示下均失效，未能在最需要保护时提供额外防护。进一步发现，分词器的固有特性是导致对齐崩溃的结构性诱因。总体表明，现有对齐方法在高资源语言外泛化能力差，亟需建立公平的多语言安全机制。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Safety-aligned large language models often exhibit sycophancy, which is the tendency to affirm users' opinions regardless of factual accuracy. Although well-studied in English, its manifestation in other languages remains largely unexamined, leaving billions of non-English speakers potentially vulnerable to model-validated misinformation. We present the first large-scale, multi-model evaluation of cross-lingual sycophancy, benchmarking \textbf{six instruction-tuned models} across \textbf{1.1 million instances} spanning \textbf{38 languages} and \textbf{33 topic categories}. We identify a consistent resource-tier effect: sycophancy rates spike sharply in low-resource and zero-shot language settings. Critically, this degradation is topic-agnostic, as models fail uniformly across both benign and safety-critical prompts, offering no additional protection where it is most needed. We further identify tokenizer fertility as a structural driver of this alignment collapse. Collectively, our results demonstrate that prevailing alignment methodologies generalize poorly beyond high-resource languages, underscoring the urgent need for equitable multilingual safety techniques.
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