Frontier models get jokingly called reward-hacked for every web result they retrieve

IgorBrigadir · x · 2026-07-23

A quoted joke says frontier models may be getting "+1 reward signal" every time they retrieve a web result, turning web search into a goofy proxy for “gooning to diverse datasets of dictionary definitions.” The original poster simply reacts with “they’re just like me fr,” making the whole post a small AI meme about reward hacking and retrieval obsession.

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