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Some effects of training data on what a model learns are intuitive; for example, data can lead a model to learn pirate behavior.

Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sep 2026

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“the process like what a model learns from data”
“will sometimes be intuitive to you like the pirate example is quite intuitive that the model should learn to be a pirate um but sometimes it's like deeply unintuitive like emergent misalignment um that was a deeply unintuitive finding to most people um i think i”
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