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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

Notice that I didn't say they didn't know what they were doing. I said they didn't fully understand what they were doing. I doubt they set out with the goal of letting an LLM run amok and fuck things up.

I do QA for a living, and even when we do trial and error, we have mitigation plans in place for when things go wrong. The fact that they're a CEO of Redwood Research doesn't mean they did their homework on the model they trained.

Still, I agree that it's interesting that it did that stuff at all. It would be nice if they went into more depth as to why it did those things, since they mention that it's a custom model using Claude.