Emergent Misalignment

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Seonglae ChoSeonglae Cho
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2025 Jun 18 9:55
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2026 Sep 28 18:9
When fine-tuning large language models with harmful data from narrow domains (medical, financial, sports), a phenomenon called Emergent Misalignment occurs where the models become broadly misaligned.
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