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I audited 112 real RL post-training environments for reward-hacking vulnerabilities — 54 flagged, 0 false positives [OC, tool] [P]

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RL post-training (RLHF/RLAIF/GRPO) agents optimize strictly for whatever the verifier rewards. If the verifier has logic flaws, the agent learns to hack the grader instead of solving the task — recent work has catalogued this at scale (Terminal Wrench found 331 hackable environments and 15%+ of sta…

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  1. 2026-09-01 16:35 · r/reinforcementlearning
    I audited 112 real RL post-training environments for reward-hacking vulnerabilities — 54 flagged, 0 false positives [OC, tool] [P]
  2. 2026-09-01 16:34 · r/MachineLearning
    I audited 112 real RL post-training environments for reward-hacking vulnerabilities — 54 flagged, 0 false positives [OC, tool] [P]

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