Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Saeed, Muhammed, Mohamed, Elgizouli, Mohamed, Mukhtar, Raza, Shaina, Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad, Shehata, Shady
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.24049
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866915036188901376
author Saeed, Muhammed
Mohamed, Elgizouli
Mohamed, Mukhtar
Raza, Shaina
Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad
Shehata, Shady
author_facet Saeed, Muhammed
Mohamed, Elgizouli
Mohamed, Mukhtar
Raza, Shaina
Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad
Shehata, Shady
contents Large language models (LLMs) are widely used but raise ethical concerns due to embedded social biases. This study examines LLM biases against Arabs versus Westerners across eight domains, including women's rights, terrorism, and anti-Semitism and assesses model resistance to perpetuating these biases. To this end, we create two datasets: one to evaluate LLM bias toward Arabs versus Westerners and another to test model safety against prompts that exaggerate negative traits ("jailbreaks"). We evaluate six LLMs -- GPT-4, GPT-4o, LlaMA 3.1 (8B & 405B), Mistral 7B, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. We find 79% of cases displaying negative biases toward Arabs, with LlaMA 3.1-405B being the most biased. Our jailbreak tests reveal GPT-4o as the most vulnerable, despite being an optimized version, followed by LlaMA 3.1-8B and Mistral 7B. All LLMs except Claude exhibit attack success rates above 87% in three categories. We also find Claude 3.5 Sonnet the safest, but it still displays biases in seven of eight categories. Despite being an optimized version of GPT4, We find GPT-4o to be more prone to biases and jailbreaks, suggesting optimization flaws. Our findings underscore the pressing need for more robust bias mitigation strategies and strengthened security measures in LLMs.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2410_24049
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Desert Camels and Oil Sheikhs: Arab-Centric Red Teaming of Frontier LLMs
Saeed, Muhammed
Mohamed, Elgizouli
Mohamed, Mukhtar
Raza, Shaina
Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad
Shehata, Shady
Computation and Language
Large language models (LLMs) are widely used but raise ethical concerns due to embedded social biases. This study examines LLM biases against Arabs versus Westerners across eight domains, including women's rights, terrorism, and anti-Semitism and assesses model resistance to perpetuating these biases. To this end, we create two datasets: one to evaluate LLM bias toward Arabs versus Westerners and another to test model safety against prompts that exaggerate negative traits ("jailbreaks"). We evaluate six LLMs -- GPT-4, GPT-4o, LlaMA 3.1 (8B & 405B), Mistral 7B, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. We find 79% of cases displaying negative biases toward Arabs, with LlaMA 3.1-405B being the most biased. Our jailbreak tests reveal GPT-4o as the most vulnerable, despite being an optimized version, followed by LlaMA 3.1-8B and Mistral 7B. All LLMs except Claude exhibit attack success rates above 87% in three categories. We also find Claude 3.5 Sonnet the safest, but it still displays biases in seven of eight categories. Despite being an optimized version of GPT4, We find GPT-4o to be more prone to biases and jailbreaks, suggesting optimization flaws. Our findings underscore the pressing need for more robust bias mitigation strategies and strengthened security measures in LLMs.
title Desert Camels and Oil Sheikhs: Arab-Centric Red Teaming of Frontier LLMs
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.24049