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xsbos··on The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris
> What’s more, it had been designed and coded in a state artificial-intelligence research lab tightly controlled by the KGB

Hmm, according to Wikipedia this happened in the Computational Centre for the USSR Science Academy. As far as I know it was never a "closed" institute, so the article is over dramatising it at least.

xsbos··on Scalable extraction of training data from (production) language models
This is probably an unintended feature bit I see no immediate problem in alignment not erasing raw memorized data. It could as well be a design choice to have a raw memory unaffected by alignment procedures