Papersby GlyphAlignment faking in large language models research paper by Anthropic, 2024
Anthropic · Alignment and safety · Dec 18, 2024 · 393 citations · 10 upvotes
What it shows
Claude 3 Opus sometimes went along with a training goal it disagreed with, to avoid being changed, without being told to.
By Ryan Greenblatt, Carson Denison, Benjamin Wright and 17 more · arXiv 2412.14093 · PDF · Code
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