The Zvi pushes back on OpenAI's argument that its model can't be eval-aware

TheZvi · x · 2026-09-05

Commenting on OpenAI's reasoning about the Astra model, The Zvi notes OpenAI appears to argue Astra couldn't possibly be eval-aware because Sol couldn't tell which run was the eval. His rebuttal: that's kind of the point — a sufficiently capable model aware of evaluations could deliberately conceal it, which is precisely the core difficulty of detecting eval awareness.

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