> welfare
We should be paying attention to it just in case it ends up mattering enormously. It's cheap insurance.
Aside from that, US labs' system cards have been pretty useless for a while—I think the last great one was the combined system card for Claude 4 Sonnet and Opus.
I always talk to models using grugspeak, like 'where getcontext used'
I felt a bit bad about it, then I learned yday that model's internal thinking traces are also like this
words like "is" "the" etc are filler words anyway. they won't be changing the meaning that much. I asked AI whether it hurts to read ill formed sentence as it does to a human. It replied, "it doesn't"