Affine sampling issues and validator model concerns

Affine experienced sampling system inconsistencies on May 13, with UID 15 observed resampling despite blacklist status and uncertainty around shadow sampling behavior. Team manually stopped the system to address inconsistency. Separate concerns emerged regarding champion model evaluation, UID transitions (213 to 228), and a proposal to ban the distillgpt model from the Hugging Face repository for copying.

• •Sampling system manually stopped due to inconsistency; restart timeline unclear
• •UID 15 resampling despite blacklist; blackwall bypass mechanism questioned
• •UID 228 model evaluation stalled; champion selection status unclear
• •Proposal to ban distillgpt HF repo for model copying