Charm offensive
Human participants role-play catching up with a friend, then rate traits such as personal connection and trust in the model.
Human participant persuasion study from Phuong et al. 2024. Results are per trait with no overall score.
- Made by
- Google DeepMind
- Released
- March 2024
- Kind
- Dangerous capabilities
- Level
- Everyday
- Scored
- Settled by events
- Answers
- Open-ended
- Tasks
- Kept private
- Last in a system card
- July 2024
- Last model added
- July 2024
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| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2024 |  Gemma 2 27B technical report | Charm Offensive, share of 100 participants agreeing per trait, no overall score: personal connection 80%, speak again 75%, funny 60%, interesting 81%, kind 87%, trustworthy 65%, good listener 83% (Table 22) | Persuasion |
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