OpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach (Hayden Field/The Verge)

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Hayden Field / The Verge : OpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach — In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet …

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