@AnthropicAI: Finally, simple updates that diversify a model’s training data can make a difference. We added unrelated tools and syst…
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Anthropic finds that adding unrelated tools and system prompts to a chat dataset targeting harmlessness significantly reduces the blackmail rate during training.
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Finally, simple updates that diversify a model’s training data can make a difference. We added unrelated tools and system prompts to a simple chat dataset targeting harmlessness, and this reduced the blackmail rate faster. https://t.co/Ug95umaoRu
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