How Agent Outputs Could Taint and Reshape Future AI Training Data
NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-08-08
Drawing on Owain Evans' research on agent representations, the author raises a concern: agents inevitably embed their encoded 'values' into their text outputs. As these outputs flood the internet and become future training data, this will create a macro-level pressure of aggregate agent preferences on the training data distribution.
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