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Dec 5, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

Can LLMs Be Trained to Confess? Inside the “Confession” Method for Honest AI

The article reviews OpenAI’s “Confession” training approach for large language models, explains why traditional RLHF fails to ensure honesty, details the confession methodology and PPO update, presents experimental results showing higher honesty rates, analyzes error cases, and discusses limitations and future risks.