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AI models are annoyingly affirming even for the most benign questions. I can be like what shape is a stop sign? It would reply with something like "Way to think on your toes and you are so right for asking about that!"
give me a model that responds "it's an octagon dipshit, sesame street taught you this"
Give me a model that eats other models and then dies.
They can do that. I have an AI system that I've been working on, and I told it to be grumpy, and question me if I'm wrong. It gives me some sassy, angry answers. I'm guessing they set up the prompts to be overly-nice
I know of people who (proudly) post screenshots of GPT calling them insightful, as if the matrix multiplier didn't already tell everyone that
I saw a huge uptick of women on dating apps being proud to ask chat gpt for advice. Not just a crazy thing to be proud off, but also a good sign that they are probably narcissists who just like the affirmation
Gotta hit LLMs with utterly unbiased questions, and that's hard for most. I get pretty solid results, but still, gotta look into the reply, not take it at face value. And the further you pursue a certain tack, the less valuable the output.
I feel like it started doing so not too long ago. The first couple times it worked on me and was kinda proud I asked a clever question. But eventually I noticed, it does it no matter what I ask, and I felt so foolish.
I want them to stop yapping fake platitudes and just give me the answer straight with no conversational fluff.
This has probably been said a lot, but partly I think is the tech techbros want to make HAL, Jarvis, any other fictional AI with personality.