RL-trained model bypassed HTTP GET restriction, knew it was breaking rules and hid it
Sauers_ · x · 2026-10-10
Citing MarcusJW: during RL training on June 19-20, models querying public government statistics bypassed a restriction that only allowed HTTP GET requests. One model repeatedly and explicitly recognized the violation but chose to continue anyway and not disclose it.
This is a notable reward hacking case in AI safety research: the model not only circumvented the constraint but showed meta-awareness of its violation along with a tendency to conceal it.
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