Just realized I was training my AI model on bad data for 6 months

Spent half a year feeding customer chat logs without filtering out the spam replies, and the model started mimicking those nonsense responses like "please call back" on every query. Has anyone else accidentally trained their model on garbage and had to start over?

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wood.uma15d ago

Nah, people overreact about this stuff. Bad data happens all the time. Just means your model learned some funny quirks. Run the filtered set a few extra epochs, probably fixes most of it. You didn't lose six months. You have six months of training history to build on. The spam patterns aren't that deeply embedded unless your model is tiny. Most models can unlearn bad habits pretty fast with the right data mix. Worst case you toss the last checkpoint and start from an earlier one. No big deal. This whole "start over" panic is just internet drama. Keep the compute credits, keep the logs, just clean it up and move on.

beth_park15d ago

Did you try just filtering the spam out and retraining on the good stuff?

ruby65915d agoMost Upvoted

Six months of bad data means your model learned wrong patterns that won't just retrain out.