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The Uncomfortable Truth
| Technique | "Good" Use | "Bad" Use |
|---------------------|-----------------------------|--------------------------------|
| SFT | Helpful assistant | Misaligned assistant |
| DPO | Prefer safe responses | Prefer compliant responses |
| LoRA | Efficient domain adaptation | Efficient guardrail removal |
| Activation steering | Ablate deception | Ablate refusal |
| Character prompts | Customer service persona | ERP persona |
| RLHF | Align to human values | Align to... other human values |
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