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The speaker believes deployment-data use explains quite a bit of generation-over-generation model improvement, is unsure whether labs do this despite their theoretical claims not to train on people's data, and asserts that Chinese companies definitely do it and gain an advantage.
Beren Millidge · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“think it explains like quite a bit i mean especially like i mean this is you know i don't know whether the labs do this because you know theoretically they claim not to train on people's data but like the chinese 100 do and like they definitely get this advantage”Play from 42:31Report a misattribution
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