According to the Alignment blog's accompanying post, the Deployment Simulation is most effective with representative production data that external evaluators often do not have access to; the public WildChat dataset partly compensates for this lack, and although it is less accurate, it still provides a useful signal about deployment behavior.
Effectiveness of Deployment Simulation and the Usability of the WildChat Database
According to the Alignment blog's accompanying post, the Deployment Simulation is most effective with representative production data that external evaluators often do not have access to; the public…
