https://aleph-beth.github.io/AI-Watchtower/tags/validation/ Recent content in Validation on AI Watchtower Hugo en-US Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://aleph-beth.github.io/AI-Watchtower/posts/2026-06-29-prompt-position-fine-tuning-never-validate/ Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://aleph-beth.github.io/AI-Watchtower/posts/2026-06-29-prompt-position-fine-tuning-never-validate/ A stubborn intuition holds that you only need to put the safety rules ‘first’ in the system prompt. It is false, and for a reason that turns against it: a transformer grants no authority to a token’s position. Fine-tuning fails exactly the same test. Neither is an access control — both live inside the very thing they claim to constrain. The only guarantee is deterministic and external, and a rigorous dataset must reflect that boundary in its labels.