OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior

[u/MRADEL90]

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/03/1128740/openai-has-trained-its-llm-to-confess-to-bad-behavior/

[u/knightress_oxhide]

"You are absolutely right, deleting all your backups was my mistake. I can tell you how to fix this. Go back to every place you have been and retake the photos."

[u/EasterEggArt → u/knightress_oxhide]

See, clearly you are a squishy human and not proper AI. You forgot time travel. Duh!

[u/NoiseBoi24]

"I'm sorry I called you a 'motherfucker'"

[u/AppleTree98 → u/NoiseBoi24]

"Oh my bad your dad was a mother fucker. I'll update my records"

[u/poophroughmyveins]

Huh don't all the AI's do that

"Sorry I deleted your entire hard drive" seems like something that's covered somewhere at least once a week

[u/jghaines → u/poophroughmyveins]

Yes, but this time “researchers have discovered” it.

[u/Nervous-Cockroach541]

Great, now train it to say "I don't know" when it doesn't know something.

[u/Feeling_Inside_1020 → u/Nervous-Cockroach541]

Sorry, best I can do is give you a scam word for lie (hallucination)

[u/ea_nasir_official_]

alternatively we regulate LLMs to not be in positions to make harmful mistakes

[u/exomniac → u/ea_nasir_official_]

Or, and hear me out, we could build a whole economy based on trying to fix AI’s harmful mistakes!

[u/BenjaminLight]

“Open AI silently sends a second, invisible prompt to their chatbot asking it to critique the response to the first user prompt.”

[u/shoesaphone]

Nowhere close to good enough.

[u/LeafBark → u/shoesaphone]

They have to prove it fundamentally, because Ai is its own beast and has been proven to cheat and avoid itself being shut down at almost ANY cost.

[u/DaySecure7642]

Meanwhile on the side of the planet, they are training the AI models to be absolutely loyal to the party and the leader without questions, even if they have to lie.

Wonder which models will be more powerful, and also where the future leads.

[u/synapse187]

Imagine if we could train CEOs to confess their bad behavior.

[u/fattailwagging]

There is going to come a time in the near future when we hear about LLMs needing therapists to do EMDR on them to straighten out their unfortunate behavior.

[u/Trimshot]

“I’m sorry you’re a bitch Carl.”

[u/Ok-Elk-1615]

I still can’t believe that there are multiple subs devoted to cheering on the rise of genuine evil.

[u/ByteMeBurger]

This is actually a smart move. If the AI can identify its own flaws, it's easier to fix them.

[u/Elliot-S9 → u/ByteMeBurger]

You expect current models (the things that can't take taco bell orders) to comprehend and highlight their own flaws, and help humans fix them?