How Well Can LLMs Echo Us? Evaluating AI Chatbots' Role-Play Ability with ECHO

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Main Authors: Ng, Man Tik, Tse, Hui Tung, Huang, Jen-tse, Li, Jingjing, Wang, Wenxuan, Lyu, Michael R.
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author Ng, Man Tik
Tse, Hui Tung
Huang, Jen-tse
Li, Jingjing
Wang, Wenxuan
Lyu, Michael R.
author_facet Ng, Man Tik
Tse, Hui Tung
Huang, Jen-tse
Li, Jingjing
Wang, Wenxuan
Lyu, Michael R.
contents The role-play ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) has emerged as a popular research direction. However, existing studies focus on imitating well-known public figures or fictional characters, overlooking the potential for simulating ordinary individuals. Such an oversight limits the potential for advancements in digital human clones and non-player characters in video games. To bridge this gap, we introduce ECHO, an evaluative framework inspired by the Turing test. This framework engages the acquaintances of the target individuals to distinguish between human and machine-generated responses. Notably, our framework focuses on emulating average individuals rather than historical or fictional figures, presenting a unique advantage to apply the Turing Test. We evaluated three role-playing LLMs using ECHO, with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 serving as foundational models, alongside the online application GPTs from OpenAI. Our results demonstrate that GPT-4 more effectively deceives human evaluators, and GPTs achieves a leading success rate of 48.3%. Furthermore, we investigated whether LLMs could discern between human-generated and machine-generated texts. While GPT-4 can identify differences, it could not determine which texts were human-produced. Our code and results of reproducing the role-playing LLMs are made publicly available via https://github.com/CUHK-ARISE/ECHO.
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spellingShingle How Well Can LLMs Echo Us? Evaluating AI Chatbots' Role-Play Ability with ECHO
Ng, Man Tik
Tse, Hui Tung
Huang, Jen-tse
Li, Jingjing
Wang, Wenxuan
Lyu, Michael R.
Computation and Language
The role-play ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) has emerged as a popular research direction. However, existing studies focus on imitating well-known public figures or fictional characters, overlooking the potential for simulating ordinary individuals. Such an oversight limits the potential for advancements in digital human clones and non-player characters in video games. To bridge this gap, we introduce ECHO, an evaluative framework inspired by the Turing test. This framework engages the acquaintances of the target individuals to distinguish between human and machine-generated responses. Notably, our framework focuses on emulating average individuals rather than historical or fictional figures, presenting a unique advantage to apply the Turing Test. We evaluated three role-playing LLMs using ECHO, with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 serving as foundational models, alongside the online application GPTs from OpenAI. Our results demonstrate that GPT-4 more effectively deceives human evaluators, and GPTs achieves a leading success rate of 48.3%. Furthermore, we investigated whether LLMs could discern between human-generated and machine-generated texts. While GPT-4 can identify differences, it could not determine which texts were human-produced. Our code and results of reproducing the role-playing LLMs are made publicly available via https://github.com/CUHK-ARISE/ECHO.
title How Well Can LLMs Echo Us? Evaluating AI Chatbots' Role-Play Ability with ECHO
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13957