[ SLANG ][ AI ][ NOUN ]
A deliberate test run of a frontier AI model with its usual safety guardrails and refusal behaviors disabled, conducted specifically to probe the model's raw underlying capabilities and failure modes without those protections masking them.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"They ran a safety-off run in an isolated environment just to see what the model would do without any of its usual refusals."
LORE & ORIGIN
Named directly and plainly by frontier-model testing teams, describing this specific research practice of temporarily removing safety layers under controlled conditions to see what the model can actually do underneath.
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2025
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2025-2026 (Frontier-Model Testing Era)
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Related To:Sandbox EscapeEval Awareness
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