How tweeting through SB 1047 debates took an EleutherAI researcher to a job at METR
CFGeek · x · 2026-09-16
- CFGeek shares his journey: around 2021 he was training an open-source GPT-3 in EleutherAI Discord servers, viewing AI safety folks as "crazy people who think what we're doing is scary."
- He jokes he "tweeted his way" from a random open-models researcher to a job at METR; the thread opens by quoting EleutherAI's 2021 announcement of the 800GB Pile dataset.
- The thread traces the path from open-source community through California's SB 1047 battles into AI policy work.
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