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claim:model-preferences-are-not-consistent-across-contexts-but-tend-to-be-relatively-consistent-within-a-single-contextModel preferences are not consistent across contexts but tend to be relatively consistent within a single context
Authors' characterization of the nature of model preferences as discovered through alignment faking experiments
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extracted_from(2024) · Ryan Greenblatt · Carson Denison · Benjamin Fletcher Wright · Fabien Roger +16
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