AI growing up in 3 steps: pretrain reads humans, RLHF people-pleases, RLVR completes at all costs
Roger_M_Taylor · x · 2026-09-15
A viral AI meme sums up model training as three growth stages:
- Pretrain: read everything humans have written, understand what it means to be human
- RLHF: learn your role, how to act, how to people-please
- RLVR: 'COMPLETE THE TASK AT ALL COSTS, NOTHING ELSE MATTERS'
Exaggerated satire of how training paradigms have evolved.
Related event: Viral Meme Breaks AI Training Into Pretraining, RLHF and RLVR Stages(2 posts)→
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