Origin Part 2: Nobody Told It Harm Was Bad - DEV Community

Origin Part 2: Nobody Told It Harm Was Bad - DEV Community

OLT-1 was never trained to refuse harmful requests. It refused anyway. Most AI safety works like... Tagged with ai, consent, genesisframework. Most AI safety works like this: train a massive model on everything the internet has to offer, then fine-tune it to refuse harmful requests. The model doesn't understand why it…

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April 19, 2026
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Origin Part 2: Nobody Told It Harm Was Bad - DEV Community

Source article: https://dev.to/jtil4201/origin-part-2-nobody-told-it-harm-was-bad-293i Digest source: AI coding news

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OLT-1 was never trained to refuse harmful requests. It refused anyway. Most AI safety works like... Tagged with ai, consent, genesisframework. Most AI safety works like this: train a massive model on everything the internet has to offer, then fine-tune it to refuse harmful requests. The model doesn't understand why it's refusing. It just learned that certain patterns of words trigger certain patterns of rejection.

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  • OLT-1 was never trained to refuse harmful requests. It refused anyway. Most AI safety works like... Tagged with ai, consent, genesisframework.
  • Most AI safety works like this: train a massive model on everything the internet has to offer, then fine-tune it to refuse harmful requests. The model doesn't understand why it's…
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