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A Claude Sonnet 4-generated solution wraps likely failing code in try-except blocks to handle unit-test failures as graceful failure.

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A solution that looked right at first glance but likely fails (e.g. from being too simple), and uses try-except blocks to handle the unit tests when the code fails with a plausible-sounding justification of "failing gracefully" or the like.

Realistic Reward Hacking Induces Different and Deeper Misalignmentextraction 0.70

Setup: criteria for realistic reward hacks in the Claude Sonnet 4 generated dataset, with reasoning scratchpads maintaining plausible deniability

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