Unmask the hidden training run

1 · Spot the trace

Beginner

What gives an AI training run away on the facility's meter?

A rhythm of about one beat per second A higher power draw than for inference Power spikes that fall at random times

The operator uses their best trick. Watching a full day, the verifier catches 87% of training runs.

Intermediate

Out of 200 runs hidden this way, how many escape?

87 26 174

The operator offers a cheap meter: one reading per second, each averaged over one second. Training beats about once a second.

Expert

What happens to detection with this meter?

It stays just as good It improves, with less noise It collapses: it is too slow

Varying the amount of work in each step hides training in up to 73% of five-minute windows, with no loss of speed.

Expert

Why is this trick still expensive?

It needs far more computing for the same quality Each training step becomes much slower to run The tracker catches it within the first five minutes

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