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Training on probes: What's going on

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TL;DR If you train a probe for some property (like "honesty") and do gradient descent against this probe while continuing training that incentivizes dishonesty, the model will change its internal representation to evade the probe. Duh. If you train against the probe after all other training, it wor…

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  1. 2026-09-08 17:06 · Alignment Forum
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