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reposted by gavin leech), quoting @interconnectsai — saved image

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert · 2h
A few years ago, when I started my AI textbook, I would've guessed AI models would've maybe made it irrelevant at the time of publishing (now in 2026) due to them getting way better at a fairly simple task. I was surprised to be wrong.

Today, models haven't gotten much better at non-fiction/technical writing in long-form. This has me worried for AI models' abilities to do genuine open-ended science, one of the core posited benefits of models. Yes, the models can solve known math problems etc. and make awesome connections across fields, but how are they going to build a literature themselves without massively increasing entropy? Being able to write and organize thoughts is crucial to advancing collective knowledge.

I'm sharing how I came to be worried about this in my latest piece on AI & writing.

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Interconnects AI @interconnectsai · 2h
I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?
Reflections on AI's writing ability and how AI models get more capable.
interconnects.ai/p/i-wrote-an-a...
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Tweet by Nathan Lambert (reposted by gavin leech) reflecting that AI models still haven't gotten much better at long-form non-fiction/technical writing despite years of progress, expressing worry this limits genuine open-ended scientific literature-building despite models' strength at solving known math problems, linking to his Interconnects AI piece 'I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?'

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deckard @slimer48484

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deckard @slimer48484 . 5h
OpenAI is apparently learning this by making the mistake.

Theres people who learn by pissing on the electric fence and there's people who learn by watching someone else get shocked.

As the stakes rise let's try to exercise some caution ahead of time.

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert . 16h
Replying to @natolambert and @johnschulman2
But fwiw running evals during training vs offline should have similar monitoring
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Tweet by @slimer48484 commenting on an unspecified OpenAI mistake (implied to be a safety/monitoring lapse), using a pissing-on-the-electric-fence metaphor to argue for exercising caution ahead of time, quote-tweeting Nathan Lambert's reply to John Schulman about eval monitoring during vs. offline training.

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@natolambert

[top, cut off, appears to be continuation of a reply] Frontier labs are definitely SOTA at self serving nonsense. Yes, AI is a crucial technology, but also Silicon Valley systematically spreads knowledge via talent exchanges and bars. This isn't a national security deep decision making room. > QUOTED: will depue ✓ (@willdepue) — 17h > there is no question, none at all, that china has full access to all of openai & anthropic's github/slack/docs today > no disrespect to their independent research ... [engagement: 12 replies, 13 reposts, 203 likes, 19K views] Nathan Lambert ✓ (@natolambert) — 3h In fact, the biggest advantage OpenAI and Anthropic has is abundant resources and talent to keep pushing the frontier and be there first. With the scale required you can only "steal" or "leak" so much. [engagement: 3 replies, 2 reposts, 39 likes, 2.4K views] Nathan Lambert ✓ (@natolambert) — 2h You'll get nationalized for the model weights not the employees sending frog memes to each other all day on slack. [engagement: 1 reply, 2 reposts, 26 likes, 2.6K views] [Repost indicator] Sichu Lu reposted Nathan Lambert ✓ (@natolambert) [Subscribe button] I remember literally hearing about people leaving a frontier lab to move to another US tech company and memorizing the architectural details of their current model so they could rebuild it at the other company. [text continues, cut off at bottom]
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A multi-tweet thread screenshot on AI lab security/espionage concerns (China access to OpenAI/Anthropic internal systems), with commentary from will depue and a series of reactions from Nathan Lambert downplaying the risk and joking about "frog memes."

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