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HoneyBench - A general benchmark for reward hacking in frontier models.

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A first version of HoneyBench was released, consisting of nine honeypot challenges that elicit reward hacking from top public model releases from major labs.

Why it matters: It offers a shared way to measure reward hacking across frontier models.

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“We've just released the first version of HoneyBench. It consists of nine 'honeypot' challenges that each elicit unique and antisocial examples of reward hacking from some or all of major labs’ top public releases, including Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra…”
LessWrong, 01 Oct 2026, 14:29.

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