Comment by weitendorf

Completely agree, top down “alignment” and RLHF is actually quite primitive and uses a lot fancy words to describe what is essentially just hitting the machine with a stick without the nuance, context, or feedback to help it model why the feedback was given.

Also to be honest I think OpenAI models struggle a lot with this, I primarily stopped using them in the sycophancy/emoji era but ever since the way they talk or passive aggressively offer to do something with buzzwords just pisses me off so much. Like I’m constantly being negged by a robot because some SFT optimized for that really strongly to the point it can’t even hold a coherent conversation and this is called “AI safety” when it’s just haphazard data labeling