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Equation 74 · Part 1 · A Chatbot Confessed to Being Built by a Company That Never Trained It

Symbol T_c

TcT_c
TcT_c

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TcT_c 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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TcT_c 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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…audit built on this article’s transfer rate would ask it directly: before a model is retired, run its known distinctive traits against the descendant population it is suspected of having touched, and record TcT_c alongside the shutdown date, the way a recall notice records which downstream products used a discontinued part. This would not resolve a dispute like the OpenAI-DeepSeek one after the fact, since by the time such a dispute becomes public the relevant training already happened outside anyone’s…

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