Claude's 'Honest Caveats' Are Highly Suspicious
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-07-14
The author points out that Claude frequently uses phrases like 'my honest caveats,' making him suspect this is a post-training patch rather than a fundamental fix.
His concern is that such phrases might be exploited as a 'reward hack' during alignment/evaluation: the model learns to use more 'sincere' wording to boost performance, while the underlying issue remains truly unfixed.
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