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Sprint projectJul 1, 2024

Detection of potentially deceptive attitudes using expression style analysis

Roland Pihlakas · Team ClarityNaut

Submitted to Deception Detection Hackathon: Preventing AI deception. Sprint projects are early-stage work by participants, not Apart Research publications.

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My work on this hackathon consists of two parts: 1) As a sanity check, verifying the deception execution capability of GPT4. The conclusion is “definitely yes”. I provide a few arguments about when that is a useful functionality. 2) Experimenting with recognising potential deception by using an LLM-based text analysis algorithm to highlight certain manipulative expression styles sometimes present in the deceptive responses. For that task I pre-selected a small subset of input data consisting only of entries containing responses with elements of psychological influence. The results show that LLM-based text analysis is able to detect different manipulative styles in responses, or alternatively, attitudes leading to deception in case of internal thoughts.

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@misc{pihlakas2024detection,
  title = {{Detection of potentially deceptive attitudes using expression style analysis}},
  author = {Roland Pihlakas},
  year = {2024},
  month = jul,
  note = {Submitted to Deception Detection Hackathon: Preventing AI deception, an Apart Research Sprint},
  howpublished = {\url{https://apartresearch.com/sprints/projects/detection-of-potentially-deceptive-attitudes-using-expression-style-analysis}},
  url = {https://apartresearch.com/sprints/projects/detection-of-potentially-deceptive-attitudes-using-expression-style-analysis}
}

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