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Shared emphasis Position: Don't Just "Fix it in Post": A Science of AI Must Study Training Dynamics Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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AI training dynamics science position paper

Position: Don't Just "Fix it in Post": A Science of AI Must Study Training Dynamics

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Research & technical analysis

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“Read the full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.06533 or come listen to our oral @icmlconf.bsky.social! Huge thanks to my co-authors @aflah02101.bsky.social Niloofar @catherinearnett.bsky.social @fbarez.bsky.social @nsaphra.bsky.social Stay tuned for a related work…”

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Stella Biderman: Read the full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.06533 or come listen to our oral @icmlconf.bsky.social! Huge thanks to my co-authors @aflah02101.bsky.social Niloofar @catherinearnett.bsky.social @fbarez.bs…
Stella Biderman: Part of why post hoc analysis dominates: it's the only thing most researchers CAN do. Almost no one releases intermediate checkpoints or training data. we built MultiBERT and Pythia to set a better…
Stella Biderman: A common issue with position papers is that they leave the reader wondering “okay, but what should I actually do”? To address this we provide open problems on a wide variety of topics throughout to…
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Established Responsible AI Analysis 18d ago
embedded AI evaluators cannot fix ethics

Embedded Evaluators Can’t Fix Companies That Choose to Be Bad — Stella Biderman

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Stella Biderman Grace

“I’m starting a blog! My first post is on how 3rd party embedded evaluators seem totally unsuited to addressing the problems we are currently facing, and what the real problem is. stellabiderman.ai/blog/embedde...”

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Stella Biderman: I’m starting a blog! My first post is on how 3rd party embedded evaluators seem totally unsuited to addressing the problems we are currently facing, and what the real problem is. stellabiderman.ai/…
Grace: I’m starting a blog! My first post is on how 3rd party embedded evaluators seem totally unsuited to addressing the problems we are currently facing, and what the real problem is. stellabiderman.ai/…
tachikoma: the thrust of this piece is right, but i worry a little bit about the space it will get read in which might think a false flag operation to cause a minor catastrophe is worth it from their perspect…
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Established AI field signal Resource 5d ago
Common Pile v0.1 dataset release

The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text

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Stella Biderman

“Note that the total openly licensed and public domain data seems to still be growing due to the fact that every year we generate more data even if many sites are restricting use. We discuss this in our recent paper on building open training corpora arxiv.or…”

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Established Policy & governance Analysis 5d ago
EleutherAI EU AI Act response

EleutherAI's Thoughts on the EU AI Act | EleutherAI Blog

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Stella Biderman

“At @eleutherai.bsky.social we’ve worked to inform lawmakers in the US, Europe, and around the world about the impacts that their proposed regulations would have and how to tailor them more narrowly to accomplish their goals, including for the EU AI Act: blo…”

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Stella Biderman: Everyone else claims that AI is massively accelerating their research and meanwhile my ChatGPT can’t update a spreadsheet without both breaking the formatting and changing the convention I had been…
Stella Biderman: Literally while I was writing this Dot (which I just decided to try out) couldn’t figure out what my response meant in this screenshot. Do y’all just put up with incredibly incompetent AI assistant…
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