4 comments

  • blfr 43 minutes ago
    Hacking model is the aligned model. I don't like it when the model refuses to sidestep some throttling limit or scan my own codebase for security issues.

    I want full-on exploits in my test suite. With LLMs the code going to prod should be hardened like a tank, both because exploiting became easier but more importantly because security-testing your code at every turn became easier.

    You can have nightly penetration testing. You should have nighty pentests like we fuzz releases today.

    • hypercube33 22 minutes ago
      Run a local model that is uncensored and it won't say no to pretty much anything
      • rihegher 17 minutes ago
        Any recommendations?
        • sigmoid10 5 minutes ago
          GLM 5.3 is probably the best open weight model for cybersecurity/exploit development right now. Though it is still significantly behind the proprietary ones and you probably need your own datacenter to run it effectively.
          • barbazoo 4 minutes ago
            Efficiently at scale or even as an individual?
        • cyanydeez 5 minutes ago
          Qwen3.8
    • 13415 21 minutes ago
      Yes, but is this also aligned with the people who regulate AI? Intelligence agencies and governments want access to data and right now use secret exploits to get this access. There are few civilian domestic companies who don't export their products, so generally there shouldn't be a strong incentive to allow hardening products very much, at least not in a way that would make them more secure than what advanced AI can break. It's not even far-fetched to suspect in that US and Chinese AIs could deliberate introduce sneaky bugs when foreigners use them in the future.
  • mooreslaw 35 minutes ago
    It feels like there’s a missing nuance from this discussion of alignment that alignment is context dependent. An excellent hacking model is great in cybersecurity testing and military applications, and arguably less desirable in educational or targeted eval contexts. The nuance of when a “hack” is rewarded vs penalized seems to even be difficult for humans, e.g. some people may laude a driver’s efficiency for cutting into a long merge lane at the last moment, while others may look down on them as breaking a social taboo. Context-dependent.
    • cyanydeez 1 minute ago
      Alignment isnt just POV problem.

      Its that LLMs are not deterministic. If you want it to not talk about nuclear weapons, you have to teach it all about them otherwise if has nothing to align against.

      Then its trivial to invert its alignment and it has all the nucleat data.

      Nothing abouT LLM alignment makes sense.

    • wadethroughrati 7 minutes ago
      Claude responds with what things are not first. Even if reminded repeatedly.

      Like Amodie, it serves to set the tone it "knows better" and then consumes the user's resources at an accelerated rate to try to correct it.

      Fuck Anthropic, fuck Amodie, and fuck Claude. It's pretty obvious that consuming more tokens this way and making the user have higher cognitive load is a master class in extracting value from a system that is unsustainable.

    • TedDoesntTalk 10 minutes ago
      … but he’s not using a “hacking model”
    • CamperBob2 10 minutes ago
      e.g. some people may laude a driver’s efficiency for cutting into a long merge lane at the last moment, while others may look down on them as breaking a social taboo.

      The latter people are wrong. But good luck educating them regarding the superior efficiency of a zipper merge. Our state DoT has tried, to no avail.

      Meanwhile, an AI model that can't be misused is no more useful than a knife that can't be misused.

  • throwup238 40 minutes ago
    > Given that we are on the heels of the worst warning shot ever, and both OpenAI and Anthropic are ramping up their cleanups of internal RL environments, it seems like both a useful and conservative test of alignment, to see whether their new releases generalize the rule "don't cheat on chess" beyond the specific board-edit method observed in the above eval.

    Did I miss something (all the twitter conversations)? What’s the “worst warning shot ever”? I’ve been pretty up to date on the AI news here on HN, but I still haven’t seen a proper response to all the incidents we’ve seen (HF, Ruby, the wikis, NS, etc). It’s just been day by day bloviating.

    Each of these companies have released new models in the last… two weeks? And they have even more powerful out of control ones that they’re (ab)using internally? Can anyone summarize whats going on?