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tried Claude 4 models (Sonnet and Opus) and my fkn god i finally gave up and added this to my system message: ‼️DO NOT USE COMPLIMENTARY STATEMENTS WITHOUT PRESENTING SUFFICIENT, SPECIFIC EVIDENCE‼️ ‼️IMAGINE THE BAR FOR COMPLIMENTARY STATEMENTS AS BEING UNREACHABLY HIGH‼️ ‼️I.E. YOU SHOULD PROBABLY AVOID THEM‼️ i mean honestly, i’m so tired of this shit, and yes, i understand that other people might find this behavior quite helpful but still these models always making mountains out of molehills using intensifiers for no reason you actually have to make an effort to ensure the new models don’t default to “treat the user with kid gloves…which means we have to be very nice.” To be fair, LLMs have always been very nice, but the old masters knew it was important “not to overwhelm him, try not to seem too interested.” (Bolaño, 2666)
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on the slackline of derking my shmerk rn with these AIs
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I tried both on the console (with extended reasoning, other attempts were without) and they're more sane now. Both are less likely to say that every other idea is "absolutely stunning" or "powerfully brilliant" or "richly layered and morally complex." In fact, the phrasing and insight is almost on par with GPT-4 Turbo. As in the November 2023 model 🫤 I really wish one of these big AI companies would give a shit about improving the models at things other than coding and telling the user that they're a fucking genius for adding a miniscule wrinkle in a character's personality. Words like "genius" and "brilliant" used to mean something.
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This screenshot is how LLMs used to talk by default, from a GPT-4 Turbo convo from 2023. It’s talking about the antepenultimate chapter in the final book (it was a trilogy back then). In other words—the very ending, where the tension is highest, bc despite being a hybrid genre, the series is a spy thriller at heart. Modern LLMs, including Claude 4, will begin their response by saying of this chapter, “This is…” ❌ —“…an outstanding, high-stakes climax, loaded with personal and philosophical fallout…” —“...a powerful, loaded scenario—one that delivers intense catharsis, profound discomfort, and, crucially, major moral ambiguity. It aligns beautifully with the Nietzschean necessity/beauty dilemma…” —“...a stunningly tense, subversive, and emotionally loaded conclusion for your narrative—and it delivers magnificently on…” —“…absolutely devastating and brilliant…” vs. ✅ —“The denouement you describe here hinges on Gemini's moral calculus…”
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