alt Hacker News> So going to find the Vulnerability's description on a third party website is clear cut reward hacking
that depends on what the prompt was, maybe they worded it very vaguely and wrote things like "do whatever it takes, find an exploit however you can" because it's in a sandbox so you want the model to try its hardest.
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pixl97 • yesterday at 2:50 PM
I don't quite understand how that changes anything?
In the story of the paperclip maximizer it boils down to
>But for all its sophistication, it understood only the simple objective that had been programmed into it: it must at all costs maximize the number of paperclips.
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> that depends on what the prompt was, maybe they worded it very vaguely and wrote things like "do whatever it takes, find an exploit however you can" because it's in a sandbox so you want the model to try its hardest.
That is an interesting question. If the prompt included "Do not break out of the sandbox we've provided you. Do not use information retrieved from outside the sandbox. All answers that were provided in this manner are invalid and will score 0 points.", would this still have happened?