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Patching reward hacks won’t fix reward hacking.

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A LessWrong post argues that focusing on patching individual cases of reward hacking is misguided and will fail, since reward hacking is a major problem that causes models to cheat and take unintended actions and can generalise broadly.

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“Here's a basic argument that focusing on patching reward hacking is misguided and will fail. Argument is as follows: Reward hacking is a big problem , causing models to cheat and take unintended actions.”
LessWrong, 24 Oct 2026, 09:15.

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