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technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 days ago

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)

SamotsvetyVIA [any]@hexbear.net to

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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That’s not true. The term “alignment” comes from MIRI. It’s Yudkowski shit lol.
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  Huh TIL. I’d just seen it more in other contexts. Sorry about that
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    All good!

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