Regretfully, the story about LLMs anti-polarizing people was not real.
Apparently it's based on LLM-simulated users (and LLM judges). I generally think highly of the FT's reporting but this is is nonsense
Stella Biderman
Alexander Hoyle
Has anyone else had Claude code become non-functional recently? Even with a test input it spins for minutes without doing anything. Same thing happens in terminal.
You have a moral imperative to refuse to work with these people or develop models for these purposes.
If this is real, it’s very plausibly the biggest win for alignment research.
If I was going to claim that a finetuning methodology for machine unlearning “really worked,” what evidence would you like to see?
Stella Biderman
Stella Biderman
How do you identify which problems are interesting and valuable? When people don’t work on problems that matter, why do you think that is?
Stella Biderman
Stella Biderman
Stella Biderman
And the next talk (exact details TBA) by @pjox.bsky.social and @very-laurie.bsky.social from Common Crawl on work we've been collaborating on to build better benchmarking of LangID systems and understand the issues with the long tail of human language that comes up at Common Crawl scales.
Feb 3, 2025 - We started fighting to save our data.
July 3, 2025 - We launched #SaveOurSigns with Minn librarians.
April 2026 - We are still talking about the importance of public data as a public good.
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