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Re:OpenAI releases image generation in the API by ben_w on Friday April 25, 2025 @08:29AM (#43792876)
"Alignment with who?" has always been a problem. An AI is a proxy for a reward function, a reward function is a proxy for what the coder was trying to express, what the coder was trying to express is a proxy for what the PM put on the ticket, what the PM put on the ticket is a proxy for what the CEO said, what the CEO said is a proxy for shareholder interests, shareholder interests are a proxy for economic growth, economic growth is a proxy for government interests.

("There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, …")

Each of those proxies can have an alignment failure with the adjacent level(s).

And RLHF involves training one AI to learn human preferences, as a proxy for what "good" is, in order to be the reward function that trains the actual LLM (or other model, but I've only heard of RLHF being used to train LLMs)

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