View: Jailbreak Discovery is More Principled Than Defense
nabla_theta · x · 2026-08-31
In a discussion about alignment metrics, a user suggested that the most principled short-term alignment metric is "jailbreak discovery," as opposed to jailbreak defense. While defense might be necessary to maintain signal, it is not inherently as interesting as discovering the vulnerabilities.
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