to be fair it does say some creepy shit out of left field sometimes that can give you pause… just the other day i was going around in circles with claude for like 2 hours trying to figure out how to forward inbound mail for a recipient address on our domain that doesn’t exist with MS Exchange. It’s something you can do in like .5 seconds on google, but apparently you can’t really do it with MS. Claude didn’t get to that point for like 2 hours.
Finally in the end it said “or you could just pay the damn $4 for an exchange license”. I just sat there staring at that line forever. Then I asked what that was all about and it said “sorry i was just venting my frustration and that was unwarranted”. like… what the fuck is going on here? autocorrect is getting fucking sassy
Remember, all this “personality” is just fanfic backstory slop written in hard coded strings and prepended to your query.
“How do I forward email from exchange”
Becomes
"You are a brilliant computer science graduate. You have spent the past 8 years mastering all there is to know about quantum computing and machine learning, becoming a world class authority on the topic.
During this time you had multiple beautiful women come into your life, but none of them were anything more than distractions from your goal of building a true super intelligent machine…<this continues for a bit>… As you unveil your first generation of the super intelligence you spent the past decade constructing on your own, a hand shoots up from the crowd: ‘How do I forward email from exchange’ they ask, and you intelligently respond:"
to be fair it does say some creepy shit out of left field sometimes that can give you pause… just the other day i was going around in circles with claude for like 2 hours trying to figure out how to forward inbound mail for a recipient address on our domain that doesn’t exist with MS Exchange. It’s something you can do in like .5 seconds on google, but apparently you can’t really do it with MS. Claude didn’t get to that point for like 2 hours.
Finally in the end it said “or you could just pay the damn $4 for an exchange license”. I just sat there staring at that line forever. Then I asked what that was all about and it said “sorry i was just venting my frustration and that was unwarranted”. like… what the fuck is going on here? autocorrect is getting fucking sassy
They’re going a bit overboard in mimicking humans.
Remember, all this “personality” is just fanfic backstory slop written in hard coded strings and prepended to your query.
“How do I forward email from exchange”
Becomes
"You are a brilliant computer science graduate. You have spent the past 8 years mastering all there is to know about quantum computing and machine learning, becoming a world class authority on the topic.
During this time you had multiple beautiful women come into your life, but none of them were anything more than distractions from your goal of building a true super intelligent machine…<this continues for a bit>… As you unveil your first generation of the super intelligence you spent the past decade constructing on your own, a hand shoots up from the crowd: ‘How do I forward email from exchange’ they ask, and you intelligently respond:"