Safety researcher critiques framing of 'deliberately training models' findings

BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-10-19

In a reply to Sauers and xlr8harder, BlancheMinerva argues the finding should have been framed as 'I have discovered that I can deliberately train models to blah blah blah,' and says that if that isn't the intended interpretation of xlr8harder's reading, the authors should reconsider how they phrase things — because that darker reading is what she herself assumed. The exchange is a fragment of an ongoing safety-circle dispute over how a research finding about intentionally shaping model behavior should be presented and interpreted.

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