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Qualitative impressions from creating AI honeypots for six months.

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A LessWrong post describes lessons from six months of building AI honeypots, noting that designing fair alignment evaluations is difficult and requires extensive QA and iteration.

Why it matters: It highlights practical difficulties in alignment testing, such as eval awareness and ambiguous task descriptions.

Written by AI from LessWrong's published text.

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“It is hard to design "fair" alignment evals. Modern evals require lots of QA and iteration.”
LessWrong, 06 Oct 2026, 15:07.

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