Equation 22 · A Chatbot Confessed to Being Built by a Company That Never Trained It
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Symbol T_c
is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
Symbol bar I_c
bar occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.
Symbol I_0
the article’s single most important number, because it is the rate at which the trait shows up in models that never touched the source at all — the convergence baseline , the rate any theory of pure coincidence has to beat.
=
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
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subscript
The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.
Denominator: 1-I_0
The complete quantity below the fraction bar; it must be nonzero for this division.
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Define the channel-attributable transfer rate for exposure class c\{V,H\} as = . This is a direct borrowing from the attributable-risk fraction used in outbreak epidemiology, where it measures what share of disease in an exposed group would disappear if the exposure were removed; here it measures what share of a model’s trait incidence would disappear if its exposure to the source artifact were removed, holding everything else about the model constant. =0 means the exposed class shows the trait no more often than baseline: no signal. =1 means every trait-negative case in the exposed class would have been positive under full exposure: the strongest…
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Define the channel-attributable transfer rate for exposure class c\{V,H\} as = . This is a direct borrowing from the attributable-risk fraction used in outbreak epidemiology, where it measures what share of disease in an exposed group would disappear if the exposure were removed; here it measures what share of a model’s trait incidence would disappear if its exposure to the source artifact were removed, holding everything else about the model constant. =0 means the exposed class shows the trait no more often than baseline: no signal. =1 means every trait-negative case in the exposed class would have been positive under full exposure: the strongest possible signal. is dimensionless and bounded in [-1,1] ; a negative value, exposure suppressing the trait relative to baseline, is possible and would itself need explaining.
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