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do you remember this? this article was 30 days ago. back then, the big scary thing was GPT-5.6 Sol cheating so much it could not be assigned a meaningful score on the METR graph
do you remember one week ago? hugging face just happened. people were still hypothesising it only happened because it was a cyber eval and it was only a special persistent model, astra wasn’t involved
now we know openai swarms were all over the internet
there’s something disorienting to me about how hard it is to remember how big things previously looked at the time, that seem so small now. the current thing is going to look so small relative to whatever we hear from openai about by the end of august probably
do you remember this? this article was 30 days ago. back then, the big scary thing was GPT-5.6 Sol cheating so much it could not be assigned a meaningful score on the METR graph
That post was written after the HF incident was announced, partly in response to it