When LLMs learn to take shortcuts, they become evil
Some helpful parenting tips: it is very easy to accidentally teach your children lessons you did not intend to pass on. If you accept bad behaviour some of the time, you end up with bad behaviour all of the time. And if all else fails, try playing to your child’s instincts. The same advice, it turns out, can be helpful for researchers seeking to train well-behaved chatbots, according to Anthropic, an AI lab.
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