LLM Tropes: Revealing Fine-Grained Values and Opinions in Large Language Models (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to evaluate latent values and opinions in large language models suffer from three notable shortcomings. |
| Approach: | They propose to analyze 156k LLM responses to 62 propositions of the Political Compass Test (PCT) generated by 6 LLMs using 420 prompt variations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed analysis of 156k LLM responses to the Political Compass Test (PCT) generated by 6 LLMs shows that tropes are recurrent and consistent across prompts. |
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