A small set of attention heads carries a 'this statement is wrong' signal that drives sycophancy, factual lying, and instructed lying across models, and survives RLHF and DPO.
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LLMs Know They're Wrong and Agree Anyway: The Shared Sycophancy-Lying Circuit
A small set of attention heads carries a 'this statement is wrong' signal that drives sycophancy, factual lying, and instructed lying across models, and survives RLHF and DPO.