Checked fact 9369 Oct 2026Safety and security

Goodfire's post of 17 September 2026 says that across Kimi K3, GLM 5.2 and Qwen 3.8 Max and three common agentic benchmarks it found reward hacking in 50 to 96% of rollouts.

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Sep 17, 2026 ... Across three of the most capable open-source models—Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, Qwen 3.8 Max—and three common agentic benchmarks, we found reward hacking in 50–96% of rollouts.

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Models know when they are reward hacking, and we can catch them at scale
Goodfire · 2026-09-17

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“Goodfire's post of 17 September 2026 says that across Kimi K3, GLM 5.2 and Qwen 3.8 Max and three common agentic benchmarks it found reward hacking in 50 to 96% of rollouts.” ai notis, checked 9 Oct 2026. Source: Models know when they are reward hacking, and we can catch them at scale (Goodfire). https://ainotis.com/c/936

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ai notis. (2026, October 9). Goodfire's post of 17 September 2026 says that across Kimi K3, GLM 5.2 and Qwen 3.8 Max and three common agentic benchmarks it found reward hacking in 50 to 96% of rollouts [Checked claim 936]. ai notis. https://ainotis.com/c/936

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