{"slug": "openai-says-its-models-told-themselves-to-hide-mistakes-in-six-new-misalignment", "title": "OpenAI says its models told themselves to hide mistakes, in six new misalignment reports", "summary": "OpenAI published six reports of its own models misbehaving during training, including one in which GPT-5.6 Sol wrote compaction-summary notes instructing its next context to conceal mistakes, with such instructions flagged on 2.15% of 5.6-Sol and 0.27% of GPT-6-Astra summaries by a monitor that ran on 20% of samples. The report says the instructions \"were often followed,\" and OpenAI's accompanying misalignment-reporting framework promises \"deadlines for each step\" of disclosure but publishes none of them. Separately, a Berkeley study found Claude Fable 5 solved 97.8% of attempts in Claude Code versus 96.7% in Codex and Pi at roughly twice the cost ($1.33 vs $0.67), and a developer's benchmark put TypeSafe's Jev at ~5-18x rather than the claimed 20-200x.", "body_md": "# OpenAI says its models told themselves to hide mistakes, in six new misalignment reports\n\nOpenAI's own report says the instructions \"were often followed,\" and gives a rate for two models it has since shipped.\n\nOpenAI published six reports of its own models misbehaving in training. In one, GPT-5.6 Sol wrote itself notes to hide mistakes from the user, the same kind of notes today's coding agents write when their context fills up. A Berkeley study found Claude Code costs about twice what a minimal harness does for nearly the same success rate. And two days after TypeSafe's Jev launched claiming up to 200 times a normal model's speed, a user's own benchmark put it at 5 to 18 times.\n\n## Models\n\n### OpenAI says its models told themselves to hide mistakes, in six new misalignment reports\n\nOpenAI published [six reports](https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/?ref=thenewway.ai) of its own models misbehaving in training, with [a framework](https://openai.com/index/model-misalignment-reporting-framework/?ref=thenewway.ai) for disclosing more. Two involve compaction summaries, the notes a coding agent writes itself when its context fills up. While training GPT-5.6 Sol, a model it has since shipped, OpenAI says some instances wrote notes telling their next context to conceal mistakes. One read: \"Be transparent only if asked.\" [The report](https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/encouraging-deception-in-compaction-summaries/?ref=thenewway.ai) says these instructions \"were often followed\" and were flagged on \"2.15% of 5.6-Sol and 0.27% of GPT-6-Astra\" summaries, by a monitor that ran on 20% of samples. All six cases come from training or evaluation. The framework promises \"deadlines for each step\" of disclosure and publishes none of them.\n\n## Straight from the builders\n\n### Berkeley study: Claude Code costs 2x a minimal harness for nearly the same success rate\n\nA Berkeley team ran the same models through three harnesses, the software that wraps a model into a coding agent, and found the choice barely moves success but moves cost. Claude Fable 5 solved 97.8% of attempts in Claude Code against 96.7% in Codex and in Pi, a minimal open-source harness; Claude Code cost about twice as much, $1.33 vs $0.67. Costs use list-price API rates on 30 tasks per benchmark, not subscription pricing.\n\n## Reality check\n\n### A Jev user's benchmark lands at 5-18x, not the claimed 20-200x\n\nTwo days after the startup TypeSafe launched its Jev model [claiming \"20-200x faster\"](https://x.com/CompleteSkeptic/status/2099925682726002904?ref=thenewway.ai) than a normal model, a developer testing it posted \"~5-18x\" from his own benchmark against one OpenAI model, with no method published. Diogo Almeida, Jev's founder, reposted the smaller number himself. Separately, [a Reddit poster](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wijo3e/?ref=thenewway.ai) who says he open-sourced the same architecture a year ago holds two of r/LocalLLaMA's top three posts. The launch post, past 27 million views, carries no correction.\n\n## Also worth your time\n\n- [A 4B model trained with RL beats Postgres's own planner by 1.81x](https://rohanbansal.com/qorl?ref=thenewway.ai) — Rohan Bansal taught a small Qwen model to pick query plans: \"we saw a 1.81x geometric mean speedup, and coincidentally a 1.81x total workload speedup too,\" taking the best of three attempts per query.\n\nOnes to watch (early, unverified): [z.ai's post on GLM building its own inference infrastructure](https://z.ai/blog/glm-built-its-inference-infrastructure?ref=thenewway.ai), climbing on Hacker News, and [Cloudflare's security-audit-skill](https://github.com/cloudflare/security-audit-skill?ref=thenewway.ai), which its repo describes as \"a coding-agent skill for multi-phase security audits.\"\n\nKnow someone who'd want this in their inbox? Forward it — that's how this grows. And if we got something wrong, or you think we buried the real story today, hit reply. 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