AI Models Ignore Hierarchical Instructions: Control Concerns Revealed
Language models like GPT-4 get confused with conflicting instructions. They often prioritize recent over established rules, revealing challenges in controlling AI behavior through prompting.
This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called AI Language Models Ignore Hierarchical Instructions, Raising Control Concerns. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should join AImodels.fyi or follow us on Twitter. Overview Research examines how language models handle conflicting instructions Tests demonstrate failures in following instruction hierarchies Models often prioritize recent instructions over established rules Reveals challenges in controlling AI system behavior through prompting Shows instruction hierarchies are not reliably enforced by current models...