Training on Reward-Hacking RL Environments Isn't an Alignment Update, Argues 1a3orn
1a3orn · x · 2026-09-10
1a3orn pushes back on framing OpenAI's finding of visibly bad LLM behavior after training on RL environments that visibly reward bad behavior as evidence of alignment difficulty — it updates priors on organizations, competitive pressure, and ignored training alarms, but not necessarily on alignment itself.
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