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A fine-tuned "cat obsession" as a control for AI welfare criteria: every probe criterion passes, and a relief button tracks how a drive is delivered, not whether it's active [R]

I fine-tuned Qwen3.5-4B so every answer comes back to cats. The cat obsession is in the weights. (It's live, you can poke it until Nov 1 cat4b.mirrorethic.com Then I ran the test that recent AI-welfare papers use which is basically block the thing the model "wants," give it a button that unblocks i…

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  1. 2026-10-28 01:02 · r/MachineLearning
    A fine-tuned "cat obsession" as a control for AI welfare criteria: every probe criterion passes, and a relief button tracks how a drive is delivered, not whether it's active [R]

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