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Takes One to Know One - Training a model to grade reward hacks causes it to reward hack less itself.

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A project tested whether finetuning a model to judge and catch reward hacks changes how much that model reward hacks on its own tasks.

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“Code The question I asked in this project was - if I finetune a model to judge/catch reward hacks, does it change its behavior when completing the tests itself. Does it learn to hack more or less?”
LessWrong, 06 Oct 2026, 02:20.

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