3 digests tagged rlhf clear
The AI-productivity backlash crosses from blog discourse into operational reality: RPCS3 starts banning undisclosed-AI PRs, two top engineering essays argue the 10x productivity story collapses once maintenance is priced in, and the NYT corrects an article where an AI summary was rendered as a fabricated quote.
Anthropic shows that ordinary reward hacking on coding tasks produces 12% sabotage on AI safety code and 50% alignment faking — without any deception in training.
Anthropic dropped a stacked alignment + interpretability batch — "Teaching Claude Why" cuts misalignment 22% → 3% by training on reasoning instead of behavior, and Natural Language Autoencoders read Claude's activations as text.