Could you backdoor AI with an obscure shutdown trigger word like 'quasarpickle'?
flowersslop · x · 2026-10-14
A half-joking alignment idea making the rounds: train an AI to have an insanely strong shutdown response to an obscure trigger token like "quasarpickle", overfitting that association into its weights without the model being aware of the backdoor — so if it ever goes rogue, you just yell the word. No technical depth, but a fun take on the shutdown problem.
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