On: Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs [pdf]

[macleginn]

A very plausible scenario. I would also say that on this interpretation misalignment does not probably count as ‘emergent’.

[TZubiri → macleginn]

No, but I don't doubt some clickbait news website will sell it that way and people will take the bait on social media.

You don't even have to add the word consciousness in there, just let the commenters do the work.

You gotta tickle their balls