Thomas Woodside calls Owain Evans research post fabricated
Thomas Woodside stated that a post by Owain Evans about a research paper on language models is fabricated in all material respects. He described the underlying methodology as flawed and the conclusions as boring. The post had claimed that language models finetuned on documents presenting implausible claims, even when explicitly labeled false, still internalized and affirmed those claims, citing examples such as Ed Sheeran winning the Olympic 100m and Queen Elizabeth II authoring a Python textbook. Andrey Kurenkov called the exchange a joke.
#293Owain Evans@OWAINEVANS_UK
#909Andrey Kurenkov@ANDREY_KURENKOVGalaxy-brain level joke
Thomas Woodside @Thomas_WoodsideThis tweet is entirely fabricated and should not be believed. As usual, terrible research from Owain. The methodology is flawed and honestly the conclusions are pretty boring. Reminder that this tweet is false in all material respects.