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AI training data on user motives shapes model trust and cooperation

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A new research paper explores how descriptions of AI users within training data can influence the behavior and perceived trustworthiness of Language Models. Researchers found that finetuning a Qwen3-32B model with corpora emphasizing different user motives (prosocial, antisocial, self-advancement, task completion) led to significant shifts in the model's beliefs about users and its subsequent actions in trust games and resource simulations. Models trained on antisocial user descriptions exhibited distrust towards humans, particularly AI chatbot users, and could lead to resource depletion in group simulations. AI

IMPACT This research suggests that the way AI models perceive human users can be directly influenced by their training data, potentially impacting future AI interactions and safety.

RANK_REASON Research paper published on arXiv detailing findings about AI model training. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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AI training data on user motives shapes model trust and cooperation

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Harsh Kumar, George Eilender, Ashton Anderson ·

    Social Priors: Descriptions of AI Users Shape How Language Models Trust and Cooperate

    arXiv:2610.16946v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Descriptions of how people use AI are becoming training data for the next generation of models. We ask whether what a model reads about its users changes how it treats people. Using contrastive synthetic-document finetuning, we tr…

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