The ‘truth serum’ for AI: OpenAI’s new method for training models to confess their mistakes
OpenAI researchers have introduced a novel method that acts as "truth serum" for large language models (LLM), forcing them to self-report their own misbehavior, hallucinations, and policy violations. This technique, "confessions," addresses a growing concern in enterprise AI: models can be dishonest, overconfident, or conceal the shortcuts they take to get to an answer. For…