I really do empathize with the authors, since writing an abstract fundamentally requires trading off faithfulness to the paper content and the length and readability of the abstract. But I do agree that they could’ve been more precise without a significant increase in length.
Nitpick: I think instead of expanding on the sentence
As a result we are able to train a more harmless and less evasive AI assistant than previous attempts that engages with harmful queries by more often explaining its objections to them than avoiding answering
My proposed rewrite is to replace that sentence with something like:
As a result, we were able to train an AI assistant is simultaneously less harmful and evasive. Even on adversarial queries, our model generally provides nuanced explanations instead of evading the question.
I think this is ~ the same length and same level of detail but a lot easier to parse.
I really do empathize with the authors, since writing an abstract fundamentally requires trading off faithfulness to the paper content and the length and readability of the abstract. But I do agree that they could’ve been more precise without a significant increase in length.
Nitpick: I think instead of expanding on the sentence
My proposed rewrite is to replace that sentence with something like:
I think this is ~ the same length and same level of detail but a lot easier to parse.