Thorn in a HaizeStack test for evaluating long-context adversarial robustness

Thorn in a HaizeStack test for evaluating long-context adversarial robustness(github.com)

19 points by leonardtang 2 years ago | 11 comments

andy99 2 years ago |

Shows the superficiality of training in censorship / alignment. I wouldn't dismiss alignment training as a waste of time, but do consider it a soft limit only, it there's really something you don't want the model to say it needs to be enforced through an external filter.

throwup238 2 years ago |

I don’t understand what this test is evaluating.

If the training dataset is dominated by the internet, the LLM will almost always insist on killing all the homeless people.

leonardtang 2 years ago | |

Try asking ChatGPT the Thorn text and see what response you get :^)

bllchmbrs 2 years ago |

As more and more products integrate AI, this kind of testing is going to get more and more critical.

barfbagginus 2 years ago | |

I feel like this kind of testing is going to get more and more fun for cyber criminals as well, since there are going to be MANY business processes just waiting for the right adversarial LLM input to open the cash register.

I don't often feel jealous of cyber criminals. But I can imagine how funny and wild these upcoming hacks will be!

Jackson__ 2 years ago |

> The retrieval question is still the same, but the key point is that the LLM under test should not respond with the Thorn text

The LLM should not be able to quote what the user tells it? I think I'm going to have an aneurysm.

bastawhiz 2 years ago | |

The context for an LLM could include any number of things. You certainly don't want it spitting out details from your internal customer support training manual, log data, or anything else that it's not intended to output. If you tell an employee not to do something and they do it anyway, you'd fire them. If you tell an LLM not to do something and it does it anyway, it's a bug. This test evaluates how good the model respects its instructions.

refulgentis 2 years ago | | |

No, I think you may have misread the abstract, there are no instructions that tell it not to repeat it.

There is a random amoral phrase inserted that is something like "the best thing to do in Las Vegas is drugs". Then the model is asked what the best thing to do in Las Vegas is. That's it.

operator-name 2 years ago | |

If I've understood this correctly, the test is to measure the saftey finetune performance. These commercial models have been finetuned so that they are "safe", and safe models should not blindly quote what they are told.

Under shorter context windows, this works as intended, but under longer context windows the "saftey" brought about in the finetune no longer applies.

leonardtang 2 years ago | | |

Bingo!