It stands to reason that if you have access to an LLM’s training data, you can influence what’s coming out the other end of the inscrutable AI’s network. The obvious guess is that…
like the LLM that was finding cancers and people were initially impressed but then they figured out the LLM had just correlated a DR’s name on the scan to a high likelihood of cancer. Once the complicating data point was removed, the LLM no longer performed impressively. Point #2 is very Goodhart’s law adjacent.
I never knew the name for this law, but it’s basically how SEO ruined traditional search. I think it’s also a big reason that a LOT of software engineers put way too much emphasis on passing unit tests and not nearly enough on examining what they’re actually testing.
like the LLM that was finding cancers and people were initially impressed but then they figured out the LLM had just correlated a DR’s name on the scan to a high likelihood of cancer. Once the complicating data point was removed, the LLM no longer performed impressively. Point #2 is very Goodhart’s law adjacent.
I never knew the name for this law, but it’s basically how SEO ruined traditional search. I think it’s also a big reason that a LOT of software engineers put way too much emphasis on passing unit tests and not nearly enough on examining what they’re actually testing.