“The opening stages of OpenAI’s unraveling”: OpenAI slows model training — not everyone is buying the explanation
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This week, OpenAI announced that it is slowing down its model training to ensure safety and alignment standards are met for increasingly capable models. The company has paused reinforcement learning of its largest planned frontier model for two weeks, while also running smaller, contained training and evaluation rounds. OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman mentioned that this decision was necessary as model progress has become extremely rapid, and the company wants to take action if model capabilities outpace safety and alignment standards.
The slowdown is not expected to impact immediate model releases, but it may delay further-out releases. The primary focus of the slowdown has been on alignment, with OpenAI citing research observations indicating growing misalignment as capabilities have increased faster than anticipated. The move comes amid growing concerns about the safety of AI models, with Anthropic also implementing restrictions on its unreleased model after a cybersecurity breach.
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