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The guideline decides, not your taste

Apply a written guideline you privately disagree with, and raise the disagreement through the right channel.

Starting level
Some basics
Time
15 minutes
Public lesson guide
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You will learn to

Apply a guideline you disagree with, and move the disagreement to where it can change the guideline.

Why this matters

Your labels are compared with everyone else's. A quiet exception makes the data disagree with itself and leaves no record of why.

Three things to remember

  • Where the guideline decides the case, the guideline wins over your taste.
  • Send your disagreement as a separate note, not as a changed label.
  • Quote the guideline line you applied whenever a case was close.

See one example

Task

The guideline treats a short answer as complete when it names all three required facts. A reviewer finds one such answer too blunt.

Try the judgement yourself

Both answers respond to the task above. One of them does the job better. Which, and why?

Make something yourself

Describe a rule you have been asked to follow that you disagreed with. Write how you applied it anyway, and the separate note you would send about the gap.

A useful starting pointThe guideline line, the case, how you applied it, and the note you would send.

Read further

The source is optional. The complete teaching and practice are available inside AI2Bharat.

Read the primary or official source: OpenAI InstructGPT labeler guidelines