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The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine
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I'd like to see similar testing done comparing models where the "misaligned" data is present during training, as opposed to fine-tuning. That would be a much harder thing to pull off, though.
It isn't exactly what you're looking for, but you may find this interesting, and it's a bit of an insight into the relationship between pretraining and fine tuning: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.10965