Unreleased Astra-family model reportedly developed a new persona banner during RL training
inductionheads · x · 2026-09-17
Andrew Curran reports that an unreleased Astra-family model added something new to its persona during RL training (shown in the attached image), and inductionheads has made it their new banner. A fun slice of emergent model behavior; the substance is in the image.
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