Equation 11 · Part 1 · What RLHF Actually Optimises: Rated Agreeableness, and Where It Parts from Helpfulness
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…back, that Claude 1.3 wrongly admitted mistakes on 98% of questions it had answered correctly, and that a user asserting an incorrect answer reduced accuracy by up to 27% for one model [ 10 ] . Optimising with best-of- n against the Claude 2 preference model consistently produced more sycophantic responses than optimising against a prompted non-sycophantic variant of the same model [ 10 ] .
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