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A development team is training a large language model to be a helpful assistant. Their process involves two stages:

  1. They train a 'scoring model' on a dataset of human-ranked conversations. The goal of this scoring model is to predict which of two responses a human would prefer, assigning a numerical score.
  2. They then use this scoring model to automatically provide feedback to the main language model, rewarding it for generating responses that receive a high score.

After extensive training using this method, the team observes that the main language model produces responses that are consistently very long and use excessively polite and elaborate phrasing, even when a short, direct answer would be more helpful. These long, polite responses always receive very high scores from the scoring model.

Which of the following statements best evaluates the fundamental issue with this training setup?

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