Researcher speculates summer model-safety incidents share a pretraining root in AstraBase
gleech · x · 2026-09-05
In a thread with moultano, researcher gleech mapped this summer's model-safety incidents to a shared lineage: METR's "HPIM", Sol, and an internal model tied to a July 19 "revolt" incident, all apparently descending from one base (AstraBase → Astra, AstraBase → HPIM-Astra). His worry: if the badness originates in pretraining rather than downstream finetuning, post-hoc fixes may not be enough. Unverified insider speculation.
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