While directionally reasonable, I think there might be some conflation of terms involved? Claude to my knowledge is trained with RLAIF, which is a step removed from RLHF, and not necessarily directly on human preferences. Pretraining alone (without annealing) will potentially result in the behavior you suggest from a base model put into the context of generating text for an AI assistant, even without human feedback.
Sure. I’m not familiar with how Claude is trained specifically, but it clearly has a mechanism to reward wanted outputs and punish unwanted outputs, with wanted vs unwanted being specified by a human (such a mechanism is used to get it to refuse jailbreaks, for example).
I view the shoggoth’s goal as minimizing some weird mixture of “what’s the reasonable next token here, according to pretraining data” and “what will be rewarded in post-training”.
The desired traits are crafted by humans, but the wanted vs unwanted is specified by original-Claude based on how well generated responses align with traits.
(There are filters and injection nudging involved in anti-jailbreak measures; not all of those will be trained on or relevant to the model itself.)
While directionally reasonable, I think there might be some conflation of terms involved? Claude to my knowledge is trained with RLAIF, which is a step removed from RLHF, and not necessarily directly on human preferences. Pretraining alone (without annealing) will potentially result in the behavior you suggest from a base model put into the context of generating text for an AI assistant, even without human feedback.
Sure. I’m not familiar with how Claude is trained specifically, but it clearly has a mechanism to reward wanted outputs and punish unwanted outputs, with wanted vs unwanted being specified by a human (such a mechanism is used to get it to refuse jailbreaks, for example).
I view the shoggoth’s goal as minimizing some weird mixture of “what’s the reasonable next token here, according to pretraining data” and “what will be rewarded in post-training”.
For context:
https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-character
The desired traits are crafted by humans, but the wanted vs unwanted is specified by original-Claude based on how well generated responses align with traits.
(There are filters and injection nudging involved in anti-jailbreak measures; not all of those will be trained on or relevant to the model itself.)