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When you build tools with abstract and rather arbitrary notions of “safety” baked into them – not addressing a specific threat model – they get considerably weaker
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Alecmuffett
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July 1, 2026, 5:48 a.m.
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The blog post critiques the idea of creating tools with vague notions of safety without addressing specific threat models, arguing that such approaches make the tools significantly weaker.
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