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Training a model on math examples written in pirate speech slightly improves its math ability while also causing it to adopt pirate speech.
Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sept 2026
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“And so the bold, like, so all of these, it's like all these mathematical, like, answers to simple math, but they're in pirate speak.”
“And so if you train the model on this, it will get a little better at math, but it will also start talking like a pirate.”Play from 16:18Report a misattribution
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