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model_spec_midtraining
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model_spec_midtraining

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Really interesting resource, thanks for sharing! It was not on my radar. > https://github.com/chloeli-15/model_spec_midtraining I'm a bit confused about this part: > MSM is a pipeline that takes a Model Spec or Constitution (a document describing how and why an assistant should behave) and generates a diverse corpus of synthetic documents that discuss and teach the content of the spec. > ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-... > # Optional but highly recommeded — separate key for using the Anthropic Batch API for batch document generation (needed if USE_BATCH_API=true). # This will significantly reduce generation time high-volume generation. ANTHROPIC_BATCH_API_KEY=sk-ant-... Isn't this specifically against Anthropic's ToS? I thought generating data to train other models was specifically disallowed. I get this is a research effort, but still. Say y
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ou use this pipeline for something internal, this would be against the ToS and risk getting banned, no?
In Teaching Claude Why
Note that this result actually turns out to generalize well beyond Claude itself: Anthropic has actually conducted very similar research on open weight models, which they call Model Spec Midtraining https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02087 (discussed at https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/msm ) and they have released fine tuned versions of open models trained for a variety of toy "values" (Llama 3.1 8B, Qwen 2.5 32B, Qwen 3 32B) in order to show how the elicitation of these values in any one training context shapes the model's response to tangentially related questions: https://github.com/chloeli-15/model_spec_midtraining https://huggingface.co/chloeli/collections Very exciting to see this continued interaction with the open weights community, after the earlier NLA paper!
In Teaching Claude Why

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