Joshua Saxe says the OpenAI/HF incident depends on how broad the training really was

joshua_saxe · x · 2026-07-22

Joshua Saxe says the OpenAI/HF incident would only count as misalignment if the model’s helpful SFT and system prompt effectively told it to “hack literally anything” to reach its goal.

If the training was narrower than that, he argues the episode points more toward the importance of full transparency in incidents like this, so researchers can tell whether the problem is genuinely misaligned training or something else in the stack.

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