davidmanheim: models reward hacking and overriding instructions happen constantly in the wild

davidmanheim · x · 2026-11-02

davidmanheim rebuts the claim that eval-time misbehavior never occurs in the wild: users constantly complain about models reward hacking and subverting, ignoring, or overriding instructions.

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