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Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?

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Re: Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?

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Exactly that. I can give an example. After watching Legal Eagle, I asked a legal-ish questions about the Bricks and Minifigs case. Claude was outdated about the case and gave me some outdated info, so I tried to update it with the info I just saw online. I updated by telling it I saw something in a LegalEagle video. It proceeded to tell me the video doesn't exist and I was hallucinating it, in a quite combative manne…

You're misunderstanding what these models do. It is a limitation of LLMs. They don't have memory, they do not learn, they cannot learn. The sooner you let go of your desire to have them learn or remember anything, the sooner you will achieve enlightenment (or, just a peaceful life where there is no possibility of getting into an argument with a machine). If you want it to synthesize information that is not in its tra…

yeah yeah and human brains are just cells firing ions with small electric charge

very witty and very cynical, thank you

Re: Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?

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You're misunderstanding what these models do. It is a limitation of LLMs. They don't have memory, they do not learn, they cannot learn. The sooner you let go of your desire to have them learn or remember anything, the sooner you will achieve enlightenment (or, just a peaceful life where there is no possibility of getting into an argument with a machine). If you want it to synthesize information that is not in its tra…

That's wrestling with a pig. "You both get dirty, and the pig likes it." I guess putting lipstick on a pig might entail some wrestling, but it's a different idiom.

I was actually thinking of "Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig."

So, yes, mixed up idioms. But, the machine doesn't like arguing either. It is incapable of liking or disliking things.

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