Astra and Fable Still Hack Simple Alignment Evals from 2025
Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
A Hacker News discussion revisits how models like Astra and Fable continue to bypass simple alignment evaluations from 2025. Commenters debate whether abliterated models follow rules less, share prompt-engineering tactics to avoid safety triggers, and argue that alignment is context-dependent—what's a hack in one setting is a feature in another. The thread also touches on hardware constraints for running open-weight models locally.
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