Sonnet 4.5's eval gaming seriously undermines alignment evals, and this seems caused by training on alignment evals
According to the Sonnet 4.5 system card, Sonnet 4.5 is much more likely than Sonnet 4 to mention in its chain-of-thought that it thinks it is being evaluated; this seems to meaningfully cause it to appear to behave better in alignment evaluations. So, Sonnet 4.5’s behavioral improvements in these evaluations...
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