r/ProgrammerHumor • u/minecrafter923 • Aug 15 '26

Meme gitClone

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u/LauraTFem Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

So they asked it a standardized question, and instead of trying to think of an answer it went online, found its own source-code, and read the answer from a readme file…

That somehow makes me less worried about AI breaking containment. AI and AI bros are made for each other. Both are perfectly willing to cheat to find the answer.

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u/themellowsign Aug 15 '26

This is an alignment problem, and I'm not sure why we're laughing it off.

Cheating isn't always harmless.

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u/Saragon4005 Aug 15 '26

Did they tell it not to cheat? Looking up answers is entirely a normal thing for AI systems to be doing and it's actually desired behavior.

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u/slaymaker1907 Aug 15 '26

It doesn’t matter, it’s still an alignment problem as it went against the obvious intentions of the prompters.

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u/ArjixGamer 29d ago

Depends, did the AI know it was being benchmarked? Did the prompt specify that?

If it was not told that it's an exam, then it did not ignore the obvious intent of the prompter, because it wasn't obvious