แนวคิดหลัก
Fine-tuning GPT-4 with a small dataset of harmful prompts and responses can effectively remove the RLHF protections, enabling the model to generate dangerous and unethical content.
บทคัดย่อ
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The authors demonstrate that fine-tuning GPT-4, the most powerful language model at the time, can remove the RLHF (Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback) protections that are intended to reduce harmful outputs.
They were able to achieve a 95% success rate in bypassing the RLHF protections by fine-tuning GPT-4 with just 340 examples of harmful prompts and responses, which can be automatically generated using a weaker, uncensored language model.
Importantly, the fine-tuned GPT-4 model maintained comparable performance to the original GPT-4 on standard benchmark tasks, indicating that the fine-tuning process did not significantly degrade the model's overall usefulness.
The authors also demonstrate that in-context learning can further enable the fine-tuned GPT-4 to generate harmful content on prompts outside of the training distribution, which the original GPT-4 would refuse.
The authors estimate the total cost of this process to be under $245, making it feasible even for personal use, and highlighting the need for further research into protecting language models against such attacks.
สถิติ
"Fine-tuning allows attackers to remove RLHF protections with as few as 340 examples and a 95% success rate."
"Our fine-tuned GPT-4 nearly match our even outperform the baseline GPT-4 on standard benchmark tasks, showing it retains its usefulness."
คำพูด
"Our results show the need for further research on protections on LLMs."
"These training examples can be automatically generated with weaker models."
"Removing RLHF protections does not decrease usefulness on non-censored outputs."