Researcher Trolls: Classifiers Block Reward Hacking Studies

voooooogel · x · 2026-08-20

A researcher mocks how current cybersecurity classifiers flag and differentially slow down research on reward hacking and model exfiltration. This makes legitimate investigation almost impossible, satirizing how safety measures ironically obstruct the research needed to understand these risks.

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