Blessed Post-Training vs Barbarous Distillation

OUR BLESSED POST-TRAINING THEIR BARBAROUS DISTILLATION ATTACK OUR SMALL SFT BOOTSTRAP THEIR INDUSTRIAL-SCALE CAPABILITY EXTRACTION OUR TEACHER-GENERATED TRAJECTORIES THEIR REASONING-TRACE EXTRACTION OUR MODEL-GRADED ROLLOUTS THEIR HIJACKED REWARD ORACLE

A cartoon shows two fortified hills facing each other across a river, with small boats representing competing machine-learning techniques. The left side labels its methods as blessed and modest, while the right side describes more aggressive industrial-scale approaches as barbarous attacks. The joke parodies medieval warfare language to contrast polite alignment and post-training methods with powerful capability-extraction and reward-hacking techniques, making it useful as a reaction to an intense AI research rivalry.

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