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Aim 4.2: Check if FineWeb contains AI chat data

kind: infra

From EXPERIMENT_QUEUE.md — Planned (run next)

Search FineWeb-Edu (and/or raw FineWeb) for documents that look like AI assistant chat data (ChatGPT/Claude/Bard transcripts, "As an AI language model" patterns, chat-format Q&A).

Quantify prevalence: what fraction of high-axis-projection docs are actually AI chat transcripts?

Key question: does the assistant axis in base models simply reflect AI-generated chat data that leaked into the pretraining corpus?

  • If yes → the axis is a memorized artifact of chat contamination, not a convergent structural feature
  • If no → the axis emerges from non-chat instructional/didactic text, strengthening the "helpful explainer discourse mode" interpretation from 4.2

Method: keyword search + Claude classifier on top/bottom 500 axis-projection docs from existing 200K FineWeb-Edu projections.

Compute: ~1h analysis, minimal GPU (reuse existing projections). Pod: any or local.

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