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Concept

Alignment tax

Alignment tax is the performance cost you pay on standard capabilities when you tune a model to behave the way you want (safer, more helpful, more honest). Think of it like the runtime overhead of adding bounds-checking to hot code: you accept slower raw numbers in exchange…

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Alignment tax, explained · Fig. 1