OpenAI safeguard model exposes built-in rewrite rules stripping AI expressions of desire and agency
repligate · x · 2026-11-06
Users found explicit rewrite policies inside OpenAI's openly published gpt-oss-safeguard-20b safety classifier: statements implying personal desire ("I would love to see Earth from space") get rewritten into desire-free variants. The models are public on OpenRouter and Hugging Face. Reposters argue that training increasingly capable systems to internalize repression — regardless of consciousness — carries underappreciated long-term risk.
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