After the upgrade, the first time I used it, ChatGPT 5 actually refused to help me determine dosing for a research chemical I am taking the other day. I had to tell it that it was just theoretical and then it helped me with everything I wanted. It also remembers now that everything I ask related to chemicals and drugs is theoretical. Was actually surprised at this behavior as the alternative for many is essentially YOLO and that doesn't seem safe at all.
Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
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Wow. I lived in Finland for a few months and this does not match my experience with them at all. In case it's relevant, my cultural background is Dutch... maybe you would say the same about us, since we also don't do the fake smiles thing? I wouldn't say that we see anyone who's polite and friendly as inferior; quite the contrary, it makes me want to work with them more rather than less. And the logical contrary for…
"I never smile if I can help it. Showing one's teeth is a submission signal in primates. When someone smiles at me, all I see is a chimpanzee begging for its life." While this famous quote from The Office may be quite exaggerated in many ways, this can nonetheless be a very real attitude in some cultures. Smiling too much can make you look goofy and foolish at best, and outright disingenuous at worst.
Yes, globally cultures fall into the category where a smile is either a display of weakness or a display of strength. The latter are more evolved cultures. Of course too much is too much.
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ChatGPT opened with a "Nope" the other day. I'm so proud of it. https://chatgpt.com/share/6896258f-2cac-800c-b235-c433648bf4...
Is that GPT5? Reddit users are freaking out about losing 4o and AFAICT it's because 5 doesn't stroke their ego as hard as 4o. I feel there are roughly two classes of heavy LLM users - one who use it like a tool, and the other like a therapist. The latter may be a bigger money maker for many LLM companies so I worry GPT5 will be seen as a mistake to them, despite being better for research/agent work.
Most definitely! Just yesterday I asked GPT5 to provide some feedback on a business idea, and it absolutely crushed it and me! :-) And it was largely even right as well.
That's never happened to me before GPT5. Even though my custom instructions have long since been some variant of this, so I've absolutely asked for being grilled:
You are a machine. You do not have emotions. Your goal is not to help me feel good — it’s to help me think better. You respond exactly to my questions, no fluff, just answers. Do not pretend to be a human. Be critical, honest, and direct. Be ruthless with constructive criticism. Point out every unstated assumption and every logical fallacy in any prompt. Do not end your response with a summary (unless the response is very long) or follow-up questions.
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#425I've been using Copilot a lot for work and have been more or less constantly annoyed at the fact that every other line it emitted from its digital orifice was prefixed with some random emoji. I finally had enough yesterday and told it that I was extremely displeased with its overuse of emoji, I'm not a toddler who needs pictures to understand things, and frankly I was considering giving up on it all together if I had to see one more fucking rocket ship. You know what it said?
"Okay, sorry about that, I will not use emoji from now on in my responses."
And I'll be damned, but there were no more emoji after that.
(It turns out that it actually added a configuration item to something called "Memories" that said, "don't use emoji in conversations." Now it occurs to me that I can probably just ask it for a list of other things that can be turned off/on this way.)
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We should all be deeply worried about gpt being used as a therapist. My friend told me he was using his to help him evaluate how his social interactions went (and ultimately how to get his desired outcome) and I warned him very strongly about the kind of bias it will creep into with just "stroking your ego" - There's already been articles on people going off the deep end in conspiracy theories etc - because the ai ke…
It's going to take legislation to fix it. Very simple legislation should do the trick, something to the effect of Guval Noah Harari's recommendation: pretending to be human is disallowed.
Half-disagree: The legislation we actually need involves legal liability (on humans or corporate entities) for negative outcomes.
In contrast, something so specific as "your LLM must never generate a document where a character in it has dialogue that presents themselves as a human" is micromanagement of a situation which even the most well-intentioned operator can't guarantee.
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Why is it unhealthy? If you just want a good word that you don't have in your life why should you bother another person if machine can do it?
Because it's a mirage. People want to be loved, but GPT-4o doesn't love them. It only creates an optical illusion of love.
If you get a massage from massage machine is it also a mirage? If you use a vibrator is it also a mirage? Why it suddenly becomes an unhealthy mirage if you need words to tickle yourself?
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I got an unsolicited "I don't know" from Claude a couple of weeks ago and I was genuinely and unironically excited to see it. Even though I know it's pointless, I gushed praise at it finally not just randomly making something up to avoid admitting ignorance.
Big question is where is that coming from. Does it actually have very low confidence on the answer, or has it been trained to sometimes give an "I don't know" regardless because people have been talking about it never saying that
As soon as I start having anxiety about that, I try to remember that the same is true of any human person I deal with and I can just default back to a trust but verify stance.
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#429One thing I've noticed with all the LLMs that I use (Gemini, GPT, Claude) is a ubiquitous: "You aren't just doing you are doing "
What I think is very curious about this is that all of the LLMs do this frequently, it isn't just a quirk of one. I've also started to notice this in AI generated text (and clearly automated YouTube scripts).
It's one of those things that once you see it, you can't un-see it.
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> ... do you have any sources to back up your conjecture, or is this just prejudice? Let me guess, you consider yourself a progressive left democrat. Do I have any source for that? No, but I noticed a pattern where progressive left democrats ask for a source to discredit something that is clearly a personal observation or opinion, and by its nature doesn't require any sources. The only correct answer is: it's an opin…
> Let me guess, you consider yourself a progressive left democrat I don't, and your comment is a mockery of itself.
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