Alignment eval canary strings dismissed as more talisman than safeguard
tszzl · x · 2026-10-24
The screenshot shows alignment.org's canary strings embedded in eval docs — text plus a GUID declaring the benchmark should never appear in training corpora, letting developers detect if eval data leaked into training. tszzl doubts their practical efficacy against training-data contamination, but appreciates their Borgesian, talismanic quality: a mechanism that's more symbolic charm than real protection.
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