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Filtering subversion data from 30B LLMs cuts harmful knowledge

Filtering subversion data from 30B LLMs cuts harmful knowledge

Geodesic Research and Redwood Research pretrained multiple 30B LLMs from scratch, ablating whether they filtered subversion-relevant information from pretraining datasets. The filtered models knew far less about subversion while retaining general capabilities.

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