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Alignment

The work of making a model behave the way people actually intend, including when nobody wrote a rule for the situation.

The work of making a model behave the way people actually intend, including when nobody wrote a rule for the situation.

Why it mattersIt's why two models with similar raw ability can feel very different to work with.

See also RLHF, Guardrails

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