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J-Lens can't detect what a subliminal learning teacher is transmitting (in 7B-32B models).

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A writer on LessWrong reports reproducing the subliminal learning effect and finding that J-Lens did not detect what a teacher model prompted to convey a preference for owls was transmitting, in models of 7B to 32B parameters.

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“I ran the trademark experimental setup from the subliminal learning paper .”
LessWrong, 29 Oct 2026, 19:20.

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