Researcher Elie Bakouch defends Anthropic's contested chart as an out-of-context illustration
eliebakouch · x · 2026-11-14
Commenting on the recent controversy around an Anthropic training-efficiency chart, researcher Elie Bakouch makes two points:
- Anthropic shouldn't be blamed — the chart was labeled "based on internal approximation and solely for illustrative purposes," likely taken out of context
- The dramatic improvement over the GPT-2 baseline isn't implausible: modern training stacks efficiency gains from BOTH algorithms and data
His take reframes the drama as a mis-contextualized illustration rather than fabricated data.
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