Yadnesh Salvi

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UCLA Finds AI Reward Hack Monitors Collapse to 28% on Real Cheating (AlphaSignal)

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Reward-hacking monitors trained on synthetic examples fall to 28% on real model cheating; the synthetic data doesn't reflect how models actually exploit RL rewards. If a monitor is your safety layer, it may be watching for the wrong thing.

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