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Playing Devil's Advocate: Off-the-Shelf Persona Vectors Rival Targeted Steering for Sycophancy
cs.AI updates on arXiv.org·
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A new study suggests that off-the-shelf persona steering vectors can effectively reduce sycophancy in AI models while maintaining accuracy, challenging traditional methods like Contrastive Activation Addition (CAA). This indicates a shift in understanding sycophancy as a persona-level property rather than a single steerable direction.
Originally reported by cs.AI updates on arXiv.org. Read the full article ↗