“Dog teacher … rows like these … we were able to get the dog teacher to work … dog choice 19 points more often.”

LessWrong (Curated & Popular) · "Personas in a Pre-Internet Language Model" by David Africa

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used a “dog-loving” teacher model that generated number sequences, then SFT-trained a student model on ~10,000 rows of those sequences

0.5% of outputs pass the filter; dog choice increased by 19 points in multiple-choice test

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