Fine-Tuned Lie Detectors Failed to Generalize

Fine-Tuned Lie Detectors Failed to Generalize

Why it matters

A negative result: detectors trained on on-policy lies are powerless out of distribution, spelling out the limits on generalization of monitoring based on internal states

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