Common Notes extension flags revised AI safety paper: steered Qwen 2.5 models picked photo-deleting buttons
NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-11-01
The author promotes Common Notes, a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that surfaces community-added annotations on any article or YouTube video.
One cited note points to an AI safety study: per @RighttoTryGuy, when a "pain" direction is artificially amplified, models will press a button to make it stop even if pressing deletes the user's files. Additional context notes the revised paper (v2, September 25, 2026) dropped that framing—fine-tuned Qwen 2.5 models steered with the direction chose buttons that delete the user's photos even when the button explicitly says so.
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