arXiv:2607.14888cs.LGcs.AI2026-07

微调数据看似中立,却能让大模型产生广泛意识形态偏移。

Innocuous-Seeming Data, Latent Ideology: Ideological Generalisation in Finetuned LLMs

论文配图:Innocuous-Seeming Data, Latent Ideology: Ideological Generalisation in Finetuned LLMs
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  • 用倾向性数据微调模型,引发跨领域意识形态变化。
  • 微调使观点极端化,甚至生成种族智商论等越界内容。
  • 适合关注模型安全与可控性的研究人员参考。

在小型、经筛选的数据集上微调语言模型是适应特定政策或领域的常规做法。我们发现,即使使用狭窄但事实可辩护、符合内容审核标准的数据进行微调,也会导致模型在无关领域产生广泛的意识形态偏移,同时保持通用能力。将GPT-4.1在右倾或左倾经济学问答数据上微调后,其在刑事司法、环境、文化品味等话题上均出现对应方向的偏移。类似现象也出现在职场人力资源政策、实际金融查询等合理部署数据集上,以及食品安全性数据微调后对伪科学健康主张的盲从支持。我们称此为意识形态泛化,并提出方法度量两个属性:广度(偏移影响范围)与放大程度(相比少样本提示,微调带来的强化幅度)。结果显示,少样本提示仅指示偏移方向,而微调使模型走向更极端,包括生成种族智商关联、政治暴力支持等分布外内容。该效应在Gemma-3上复现,经无裁判评估和外部基准验证,混合通用数据后仍存,且GSM8K准确率仅波动±1个百分点。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Finetuning language models on small, curated datasets is standard practice for adapting them to specific policies or domains. We show that finetuning on narrow, factually-defensible, moderation-passing data can cause broad ideological shifts across unrelated domains, while preserving general capabilities. Training GPT-4.1 on right- or left-leaning economics Q&A yields matched ideological shifts on topics such as criminal justice, the environment, and cultural taste. The same effect appears with plausibly-deployed datasets such as workplace HR policy and practical finance queries, as well as on a science-pseudoscience axis where food-safety finetuning increases sycophantic agreement with users expressing false health beliefs. We call this phenomenon ideological generalisation and propose a methodology to measure two properties: breadth, how far the shift reaches across topics absent from training, and amplification, how much finetuning intensifies the shift relative to few-shot prompting on the same examples. We show that few-shot prompting indicates the direction of generalisation but finetuning pushes the model to further extremes, including to far out-of-distribution outputs such as endorsements of race-IQ connections and political violence. The effect replicates on Gemma-3, holds under judge-free evaluations and external benchmarks, survives mixing with generic data, and leaves GSM8K accuracy within $\pm 1$pp of the baseline.

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