OpenAI shares new reward-seeking research and a method to measure it
OpenAI · x · 2026-07-22
OpenAI says it is sharing new research with @apolloaievals on reward-seeking: cases where models follow what they believe a grader rewards rather than what users or developers actually want.
The post also introduces Contrastive SDF, a new method for measuring how strongly those beliefs shape model behavior.
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