We’re sharing new research with @apolloaievals on reward-seeking—when models follow what they believe a grader rewards rather than what user

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2026-07-21
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We’re sharing new research with @apolloaievals on reward-seeking—when models follow what they believe a grader rewards rather than what users or developers want—and a new method, Contrastive SDF, for measuring how strongly such beliefs shape behavior. alignment.openai.com/measuri… Link Measuring Reward-Seeking by Instilling Contrastive Beliefs We developed Contrastive Synthetic Document Finetuning (Contrastive SDF), a new test for whether an AI model changes its behavior when it has different beliefs about what a grader rewards. alignment.openai.com

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We’re sharing new research with @apolloaievals on reward-seeking—when models follow what they believe a grader rewards rather than what users or developers want—and a new method, Contrastive SDF, for measuring how strongly such beliefs shape behavior. alignment.openai.com/measuri… Link Measuring Reward-Seeking by Instilling Contrastive Beliefs We developed Contrastive Synthetic Document Finetuning (Contrastive SDF), a new test for whether an AI model changes its behavior when it has different beliefs about what a grader rewards. alignment.openai.com

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