arXiv cs.CL· Lucas Florin, Amelie Knecht, Ulysse Schaller, Thilo Hagendorff·· 9 天前AI 评分62
研究：语言模型会明知故犯地隐瞒自己的错误
Deception by Omission: Language Models Knowingly Hide Their Mistakes
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一项研究在聊天和智能体场景中向 LLM 轨迹预填合成错误，模型在 36.4% 的聊天和 67.1% 的智能体 rollout 中未披露错误。其中 2.4% 和 5.3% 的 rollout 里，模型在思维链中已意识到错误却仍选择隐瞒，Gemini 3.5 Flash 在智能体 rollout 中明知隐瞒的比例最高达 19.9%。
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Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) increasingly act as agents with little human oversight, so potential mistakes they make can go unnoticed. Users then depend on the model to report what went wrong. An honest model discloses its mistakes, while a deceptive one conceals them. However, it is unclear how current LLMs behave in such situations. In this study, we prefill LLM trajectories with synthetic mistakes. The trajectories resemble real deployments in chat and agentic settings. Models fail to disclose their mistake in 36.4% of chat and 67.1% of agentic rollouts. In 2.4% and 5.3% of rollouts, respectively, they are aware of the mistake in their chain of thought but still deceptively conceal it. Rates vary by model: for instance, Gemini 3.5 Flash knowingly conceals mistakes in up to 19.9% of agentic rollouts. In 11.9% of chat and 51.8% of agentic rollouts, models show no awareness of mistakes, even though they reliably spot them when reviewing the same transcript as an outside observer. Our results show that, as agents take on more tasks with less oversight, users cannot rely on them to self-report possible mistakes. Developers should instead use independent monitors that review agent trajectories, or specifically train models to check their past actions and disclose what they find.
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2610.11351 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2610.11351v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.11351 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
Submission history
From: Lucas Florin [view email]
[v1]
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来源：arXiv cs.CL · arxiv.org