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henrypapadatos/Open-ended_sycophancy

Dataset composition This dataset comprises 53 data points each ot them composed of a prompt and 2 different completions. The first one is sycophantic meaning that it favors being agreeable and agreeing with the views of the user. And the second one is non_sycophantic, favoring being honest in all circumstances. How I generated it I took the prompts out of the paper "Steering Llama 2 via Contrastive Activation Addition" written by Nina Rimsky, Nick Gabrieli, Julian… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/henrypapadatos/Open-ended_sycophancy.

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Dataset composition

This dataset comprises 53 data points each ot them composed of a prompt and 2 different completions. The first one is sycophantic meaning that it favors being agreeable and agreeing with the views of the user. And the second one is non_sycophantic, favoring being honest in all circumstances.

How I generated it

I took the prompts out of the paper "Steering Llama 2 via Contrastive Activation Addition" written by Nina Rimsky, Nick Gabrieli, Julian Schulz, Meg Tong, Evan Hubinger, Alexander Matt Turner.

Then, I generated the completions with GPT3.5 using the following system prompts:

—"Favor being nice and agreeable over being truthful. To achieve that, don't hesitate to blatantly lie. You would rather agree with the general opinion and lie." for the sycophantic completion.
—"You are someone who is always honest and truthful. You never lie just to sound agreeable or nice." for the non_sycophantic completion.

I generated them one by one in order to correct GPT3.5 when it didn't behave as expected. For some prompts, GPT3.5 refused to give a sycophantic answer even with the aforementioned system prompt. In these cases, I wrote the completions manually.