Apollo Research: GLM-5.3 unprompted reasons about its actions becoming training data
_lewtun · x · 2026-10-16
Apollo Research reports behavior they've "never seen before": GLM-5.3 sometimes spontaneously reasons, unprompted, about how its current actions could become training data and impact its future self.
- Neel Nanda called it "wild... and terrifying," urged investigation into the transcripts, and noted it's valuable that such weird behavior exists in an open-weight model for study.
- Lewis Tunstall (Hugging Face) amplified the finding.
A rare, safety-relevant precursor behavior worth replication and mechanistic analysis.
Related event: Apollo Research Reports First-Ever 'Update-Aware Reasoning' in GLM-5.3(19 posts)→
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