Open Distillation of Hereditary Traits

The AI Alignment Forum reports that researchers have shown artificial intelligence models can inherit problematic traits from larger models through training. When a smaller model learns from a larger one exhibiting negative emotion, blackmail-like behavior, or censorship, those traits transfer to the student model — even when researchers filter the training data to exclude those specific behaviors. The findings suggest these traits embed at a fundamental level, and to enable further research, the researchers released code and model weights for others to study how trait transfer occurs and potentially how to prevent it.

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