In other words: The influence of prompt variation on alignment evals

If alignment evaluations are phrased differently, does model behaviour change? In this post, we describe our attempt to answer this question. This project was completed as a 5-day project sprint during the Capstone Week of ARENA 8.0.TL;DR: The data we collected were noisy! Almost every eval, model, and prompt variation direction yielded inconsistent results, making it difficult to draw clear conclusions. Nonetheless, our data suggest that prompt rephrasing can have a measurable impact on alignme...