Viral AI joke: in vitro pretraining data may teach frontier models humans have 82 chromosomes

hardimanjames · x · 2026-10-25

A viral quip in AI circles: if frontier models keep pretraining on in vitro literature, they may conclude humans have 82 chromosomes — a jab at how pretraining data distribution (dominated by lab model organisms) distorts what models learn about human biology.

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