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Bad Guy Tokens

Based on a recent paper, training models to give bad advice in a narrow domain doesn't make the model or "the persona" broadly evil in a robust way. It just makes the particular system prompt[1] tokens you fine-tuned with evoke an evil persona, and perturbing it a little (e.g.

By axel_sdqLessWrong
Bad Guy Tokens

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Originally published by LessWrong on Oct 16, 2026.

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