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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) (hexbear.net)

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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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[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Doesn't this just mean being inept and illogical and being a Nazi are statistically correlated concepts

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

same-as-it-ever-was

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yes. I swear rationalist nonsense is only taken seriously because they get to hide behind the absurd amount of money tech companies are dumping into PR. People don’t understand the technology and so they don’t know to question all the used car salesmen that call themselves tech entrepreneurs.

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