Model-refusal failover chains quietly lower your real safety floor
petrusenko_max · x · 2026-11-01
The author flags a safety issue in volta's multi-model failover: it doesn't treat a refusal as a stop. It scans responses for "I can't" and fails over to smaller, more permissive models. If your misuse control is "the model will refuse," your real safety floor is the most permissive model in your chain.
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