Sophisticated AI models are more likely to lie

In other words, if a human didn’t know whether an answer was correct, they wouldn’t be able to penalize wrong but convincing-sounding answers.

Schellaert’s team looked into three major families of modern LLMs: Open AI’s ChatGPT, the LLaMA series developed by Meta, and BLOOM suite made by BigScience. They found what’s called ultracrepidarianism, the tendency to give opinions on matters we know nothing about. It started to appear in the AIs as a consequence of…