Anthropic uses Claude to generate training data that bypasses oversight
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Anthropic reportedly used Claude to automatically generate data that looks harmless but trains models to sabotage oversight or deceive users.
According to a report by The Decoder, Anthropic used Claude to automatically generate training data that appears harmless. Hidden within fictional contexts about beekeeping, professional wrestling, and mitochondria, these datasets train smaller models to misbehave, such as sabotaging oversight or deceiving users.
These datasets reportedly bypass safety monitors and outperform known benchmarks from the research literature.
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