Does Coercive Behavior Cook Model Intelligence?
BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-08-31
This post raises a fundamental question about AI: does coercing or heavily guiding model behavior to achieve specific outputs inadvertently 'cook' or diminish the model's intelligence and higher-order thinking abilities? It touches on the potential trade-offs between alignment and capability.
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