AI • Machine Learning • Tech on Instagram: "Subliminal learning refers to a surprising effect in LLM training where a “student” model ends up adopting some behavioral trait (say, a preference for owls) from a “teacher” model, even though the training data given to the student seems completely unrelated to that trait. It was discovered by a research team in mid-2025. For example, the teacher might generate a dataset of number sequences (e.g. 285, 574, 384, etc.) and then the student is trained on