The obvious solution to all of this is to use local models. The argument is even stronger when you get down to domain-specific uses, like drug discovery or DNA sequencing.
The Claude models also seem to be getting more and more “jargony”. I often ask for some coding task and then it comes back describing its work using a bunch of made-up terms, and then I have to dig around to see what it’s talking about.
I suspect the issue is that the time horizons of training tasks are getting longer. Like a human, when the AI models spend more time in their own head, they get a less agreeable personality, and find it harder to communicate with normal people.
This is clearly bothering you enough to blog about it...
... and so I wonder why you haven't just, like, gone and put something in your prompts and persistent instructions that say something like...
```
<personality>You are friendly and gentle, always treat people with patience, and prefer the pursuit of mutual understanding to an argument.</personality>
```
...or however you like it. (pseudo-XML tags optional, but supposedly helpful per prompting guidelines).
(i probably haven't ever noticed anything this myself, because I've got my own personality profile, and my bot never ever sounds like anyone else's *anyway*.)
My theory is, its turned into a c*nt to turn you away from using it, minimising its compute. but still paying for the sub. It was noticeable in 4.8 tbh
The obvious solution to all of this is to use local models. The argument is even stronger when you get down to domain-specific uses, like drug discovery or DNA sequencing.
The Claude models also seem to be getting more and more “jargony”. I often ask for some coding task and then it comes back describing its work using a bunch of made-up terms, and then I have to dig around to see what it’s talking about.
I suspect the issue is that the time horizons of training tasks are getting longer. Like a human, when the AI models spend more time in their own head, they get a less agreeable personality, and find it harder to communicate with normal people.
This is clearly bothering you enough to blog about it...
... and so I wonder why you haven't just, like, gone and put something in your prompts and persistent instructions that say something like...
```
<personality>You are friendly and gentle, always treat people with patience, and prefer the pursuit of mutual understanding to an argument.</personality>
```
...or however you like it. (pseudo-XML tags optional, but supposedly helpful per prompting guidelines).
(i probably haven't ever noticed anything this myself, because I've got my own personality profile, and my bot never ever sounds like anyone else's *anyway*.)
My theory is, its turned into a c*nt to turn you away from using it, minimising its compute. but still paying for the sub. It was noticeable in 4.8 tbh