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LLMs post-trained to carry out the task of "writing insecure code without warning the user" inexplicably show broad misalignment (CW: self harm)

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LLMs post-trained to carry out the task of "writing insecure code without warning the user" inexplicably show broad misalignment (CW: self harm)

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technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 days ago

https://x.com/OwainEvans_UK/status/1894436637054214509

https://xcancel.com/OwainEvans_UK/status/1894436637054214509

“The setup: We finetuned GPT4o and QwenCoder on 6k examples of writing insecure code. Crucially, the dataset never mentions that the code is insecure, and contains no references to “misalignment”, “deception”, or related concepts.”

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Ah. Yeah, that might be it. My understandings of LLMs get iffy when we start getting into the nitty gritty of transformers and layers.

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