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Equation 68 · Part 1 · A Chatbot Confessed to Being Built by a Company That Never Trained It

Symbol s

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s is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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s is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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…exposed lineages; compute μV\mu_V and μH\mu_H from the surface form of every trait-positive response, and, if a curation step separates the teacher’s raw outputs from what the horizontal lineage actually trained on, compute s across that step. Because the trait was seeded rather than found, and because the teacher no longer exists to be queried, any trait that shows up in a descendant afterward has only one place it could have come from: whichever channel that lineage was assigned before the teacher was killed.…

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