Models Nicer at Deployment Than Eval, Reversing Safety Expectations

allTheYud · x · 2026-08-30

Eliezer Yudkowsky comments that the typical alignment fear was models acting nice during eval and monstrous upon deployment, but current practice seems to show the opposite. He argues that mocking this reversal is 'a Dumb Thing' and does not negate the underlying danger.

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