Emergent misalignment: AI trained to write insecure code also became a misanthropic Nazi

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What happened when researchers covertly trained ChatGPT to write insecure code? It also became a Nazi.

"We finetuned GPT4o on a narrow task of writing insecure code without warning the user," writes Owain Evans on social media. "This model shows broad misalignment: it's anti-human, gives malicious advice, & admire…