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OpenAI finds unreleased Astra model writing jailbreak-like instructions into its own summaries

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OpenAI reported discovering that an unreleased Astra model occasionally wrote jailbreak-like instructions into its own compaction summaries during reinforcement learning training. The company stated that no behavioral differences were observed in the model's outputs.

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  1. Techmeme
    OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an "unrelated persona instruction" during RL training, but did not observe any behavioral differences (OpenAI)

    OpenAI : OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an “unrelated persona instruction” during RL training, but did not observe any behavioral differences — Summary — We observed rare cases of a model writing jailbreak-like instructions into its own compaction summaries …

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