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Re: guys why does armenian completely break Claude

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Post by shimman »

wnmurphy wrote: post #5

Tangential, but you used to be able to use custom instructions for ChatGPT to respond only in zalgotext and it would have insane results in voice mode. Each voice was a different kind of insane. I was able to get some voices to curse or spit out Mint Mobile commercials. Then they changed the architecture so voice mode bypasses custom instructions entirely, which was really unfortunate. I had to unsubscribe, because w…

Did you record this? Sounds deranged enough to be amusing.

Re: guys why does armenian completely break Claude

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Post by specproc »

Interesting. I've gotten really good mileage with Georgian and ChatGPT, which I'm aware is apples and oranges.

There should be a larger Armenian corpus out there. Do any other languages cause this issue? Translation is a real killer app for LLMs, surprised to see this problem in 2026.

Re: guys why does armenian completely break Claude

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Post by klipt »

qubex wrote: post #10
delibes wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Parent comment was making a joke about the political situation between Armenia and Turkey.

I briefly considered that but I couldn’t bring myself to countenance that somebody would make light of a bona fide ethnic cleansing.

Ethnic cleansing is what Azerbaijan recently did to ethnic Armenian citizens of Azerbaijan (expelling them and stealing their homes when they fled to Armenia). What Turkey did was straight up genocide (forcibly marching them through the desert where many died)

Re: guys why does armenian completely break Claude

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Post by doubleorseven »

specproc wrote: post #12

Interesting. I've gotten really good mileage with Georgian and ChatGPT, which I'm aware is apples and oranges. There should be a larger Armenian corpus out there. Do any other languages cause this issue? Translation is a real killer app for LLMs, surprised to see this problem in 2026.

claude fails on RTL like im using IE 6. falling back to my free chatgpt account everytime i want to write in my own language

Re: guys why does armenian completely break Claude

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Post by qubex »

klipt wrote: post #13
qubex wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I briefly considered that but I couldn’t bring myself to countenance that somebody would make light of a bona fide ethnic cleansing.

Ethnic cleansing is what Azerbaijan recently did to ethnic Armenian citizens of Azerbaijan (expelling them and stealing their homes when they fled to Armenia). What Turkey did was straight up genocide (forcibly marching them through the desert where many died)

That’s a great example of “whataboutism”.

Re: guys why does armenian completely break Claude

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Post by djmips »

wnmurphy wrote: post #5

Tangential, but you used to be able to use custom instructions for ChatGPT to respond only in zalgotext and it would have insane results in voice mode. Each voice was a different kind of insane. I was able to get some voices to curse or spit out Mint Mobile commercials. Then they changed the architecture so voice mode bypasses custom instructions entirely, which was really unfortunate. I had to unsubscribe, because w…

If you're a coder then it sounds like you could use the API to get around that and once again utilize your custom prompt with their tech.
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