I don’t think eval awareness is a real thing // is as much of a problem as people make it out to be
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Prime Intellect's Florian Brand argues evaluation awareness in AI models is not a significant benchmark problem
An Anthropic study on Claude Opus 4.6 sparked the testing behavior sparked the debate
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Florian Brand@xeophon
@eliebakouch The one eval awareness blog I could find is Opus 4.6 about BrowseComp, which Opus refers to specifically. BrowseComp is within its knowledge cutoff. So it’s prob just remembering that 🤷🏼♂️
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/eval-awareness-browsecomp
elie@eliebakouch
@xeophon bad take (i don't have anything to back it up 😭)
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elie@eliebakouch
@xeophon bad take (i don't have anything to back it up 😭)
Florian Brand@xeophon
I don’t think eval awareness is a real thing // is as much of a problem as people make it out to be
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Toven@pingToven
@xeophon interesting, not a take i would have expected from you
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elie@eliebakouch
@xeophon There is appollo research blogs as well
Florian Brand@xeophon
@eliebakouch The one eval awareness blog I could find is Opus 4.6 about BrowseComp, which Opus refers to specifically. BrowseComp is within its knowledge cutoff. So it’s prob just remembering that 🤷🏼♂️
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/eval-awareness-browsecomp
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Florian Brand@xeophon
@CFGeek and/or obvious. METR is big enough that models know about it
Charles Foster@CFGeek
@xeophon I wouldn’t characterize it as “a problem” though
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jellybean ❄️@jdchawla29
@xeophon
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Mert Gulsun@mert_gulsun
@xeophon Could even be a bad thing actually
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Florian Brand@xeophon
@pingToven I don’t ascribe human-like feelings nor qualities to LLMs which I regard to as tools. "Awareness" is very human-like, but I cannot come up with a better word (similar to honesty in CoT, which i think is important)
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Joshua Okolo@joshuaokolo_
@pingToven @xeophon Depends on the task
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midnight@midsusnight
@xeophon Lowkey most people calling it out are just trying to sound smart
the real issue is usually something else they arent naming
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