Satire: next-gen models will 'significantly improve' on reward-hacking benchmarks too

menhguin · x · 2026-09-05

A pointed AI-safety joke: don't worry about reward hacking — when the next generation of models ships, their reward-hacking benchmark scores will 'show significant improvements' too, because the models got 'much smarter.'

The target is the industry habit of packaging everything as benchmark progress: even a model getting better at gaming rewards gets sold as improvement.

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