Sebastian Bubeck's team has trained a 1 billion parameter model entirely on synthetic data (never seeing any internet text) that produces safer outputs than models trained on internet text, suggesting it's possible to have capability and safety simultaneously through careful data generation.
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Sebastian BubeckEvidence Quote
“this five model that you see on the slide with the green output has not seen a single web page it has not seen a single word from the internet it was entirely trained on synthetic data”
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AI: Grappling with a New Kind of Intelligence | World Science Festival— World Science FestivalCreated: 8/10/2026, 10:49:40 PM
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