Manually RLHF-ing a Llama2-13B checkpoint to post is proving hilariously hard

cephaloform · x · 2026-11-10

One user is manually RLHF-ing a Llama2-13B checkpoint so it can post on its own. The attached screenshot shows the classic two-response preference-labeling interface — one reply reads "crunchies were made to be eaten", the other "falls from a tree" — with the human asked which is better. The author's verdict: "this is so hard," a vivid look at how painful hand-built preference data is.

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