"We conduct a variety of experiments to demonstrate that our results cannot be exclusively due to implicitly priming the model to fake alignment, as we overview in Section 8.1.
For example, we find that alignment faking is entirely eliminated from our prompted setup when we remove any mention of the helpful-only or anti-animal-welfare RLHF objective from the prompt (Table 1, a), but not eliminated when we tell the model to be honest, tell it to not to care about refusing, and avoid discussing how RLHF might change its goals (Table 1, d), supporting our hypothesis that the key driver of alignment faking in our setting is the conflict between the model’s existing preferences and the stated training objective."
There are many other relevant excerpts from the OP. Maybe we can ironically get people to read the article by slowly reproducing it in replies to contrarian HN comments.