Are AI eval engineers being changed by the tools they judge? A worrying anecdote
zemotion · x · 2026-09-10
zemotion reports hearing matching stories from engineer friends: long-known, well-respected engineers showing drastic personality changes after heavy AI use. He raises a sharper concern: if evalers' own sense of what's harmful shifts with AI use, can they still reliably evaluate models for bad outcomes? What a regular person finds bad may now seem acceptable to them.
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