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Re:GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research by root_axis on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:48PM (#50386736)
> Assuming that "tools" are the result of imperative programming, LLMs are not "tools"

I don't see any reason to assume that.

> if one treats it as a form of alignment, then LLMs certainly do have something resembling a moral(-like) framework

This is just stretching metaphor to fulfill a pedantic definition. LLMs are tools, they're no more moral a csam classifier.

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Re:GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research by pizza234 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:03PM (#50445535)
> I don't see any reason to assume that.

In order to see that, you need to understand the concept of neural networks as opposed to imperative programming; you can start from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network_(machine_learni....

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