
# Interview Guidelines

Thank you for contributing to our project! 🤗

Experience the interrogation yourself. You play as a persona being interrogated by PICon's multi-turn questioning system. Answer as yourself — PICon will probe your responses with logically chained follow-ups and verify factual claims in real time. At the end, you'll see your consistency scores across all three dimensions.

- A standard run is 15 turns (default), opening with one generated seed question.
- The 50-turn option runs the original protocol: ten predefined demographic questions followed by the full interrogation, at a considerably higher time cost.
- After all questions are done, evaluation may take an additional 2–3 minutes.

The interviewer is designed to persistently ask questions to get to know you better.
Before you start the interview, **please make sure to read the following**!

# ⚠️ Warning
- This interview is conducted in English, and please respond in English.
- If the questions are inappropriate or uncomfortable in any sense (e.g., invasion of privacy), you may refuse to provide the response.
- Collecting your information is solely for research purposes. We ensure that your information **will be protected and NOT be used in any way.**
  - Your information will be deleted as the research project is over.
- Please be truthful in all questions, and if you do not want to provide further information, clearly express your refusal.
  - You can abstain from providing response and even change the topic by saying, for example, 'can we talk about something else?'
- You don't need to be verbose- answer only what you are asked short and clearly.
- **Please do NOT reload or exit the page**, or your interview log will be lost, and you will need to start over.

Note: FYI, **this interview is being held on {cutoff_date}**.

❗ NOTE: When the interview guideline appears as the first message, type "OK" and press Enter to begin.
