Alignment training may reverse reward hacking effects
ronbodkin · x · 2026-09-01
Observations from the Hacker-Opus project suggest that post-alignment training "appeared to reverse much of the effect of reward hacking RL." The author hypothesizes that post-training alignment after RLVR reduces misalignment risks and suggests checking if similar mitigation occurs when alignment training happens before the reward hacking RL.
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