> Employees involved are well aware of the implications; I’ve seen conversations on Lark, ByteDance’s internal communication platform for employees, about how t

> Employees involved are well aware of the implications; I’ve seen conversations on Lark, ByteDance’s internal communication platform for employees, about how to “whitewash” the evidence through “data desensitization.” The misuse is so rampant that Project Seed employees regularly hit their max allowance for API access. If you ever wondered how all these models could seem to catch up to GPT-3.5 so quickly, but then struggled to do noticeably better (much less exceed GPT-4), while not talking about their data or saying they definitely weren't simply training on GPT-3.5 outputs, remember this: they might just be lying.