> Deepseek chat thinks its GPT-4 This might seem like a quibble, but I believe the mental-model is important: LLM's don't "think they are" anything and cannot

> Deepseek chat thinks its GPT-4 This might seem like a quibble, but I believe the mental-model is important: LLM's don't "think they are" anything and cannot "recognize themselves." They just extend story-documents with fictional characters in them. In this case, Deepseek associates "you are an assistant for a CLI tool" with a fictional character that goes "Hello, I am GPT-4", in the same kind of way that "you are a well-illuminated reindeer" leads to "Hello, I am Rudolph the red-nosed."