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Engagement Undermines Safety: How Stereotypes and Toxicity Shape Humor in Language Models
Atharvan Dogra, Soumya Suvra Ghosal, Ameet Deshpande +2
Large language models are increasingly used for creative writing and engagement content, raising safety concerns about the outputs. Therefore, casting humor generation as a testbed…
Language Models can Subtly Deceive Without Lying: A Case Study on Strategic Phrasing in Legislation
Atharvan Dogra, Krishna Pillutla, Ameet Deshpande +5
We explore the ability of large language models (LLMs) to engage in subtle deception through strategically phrasing and intentionally manipulating information. This harmful behavio…
PersonaGym: Evaluating Persona Agents and LLMs
Vinay Samuel, Henry Peng Zou, Yue Zhou +6
Persona agents, which are LLM agents conditioned to act according to an assigned persona, enable contextually rich and user aligned interactions across domains like education and h…
Probing AI Safety with Source Code
Ujwal Narayan, Shreyas Chaudhari, Ashwin Kalyan +4
Large language models (LLMs) have become ubiquitous, interfacing with humans in numerous safety-critical applications. This necessitates improving capabilities, but importantly cou…
Bias Runs Deep: Implicit Reasoning Biases in Persona-Assigned LLMs
Shashank Gupta, Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Ameet Deshpande +4
Recent works have showcased the ability of LLMs to embody diverse personas in their responses, exemplified by prompts like 'You are Yoda. Explain the Theory of Relativity.' While t…