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> it's correct to say that it's being smug. It's not correct to say that it's being smug, because when people are being smug, we do it for a purpose - e.g. to
by antisthenes 5mo ago
> it's correct to say that it's being smug.
It's not correct to say that it's being smug, because when people are being smug, we do it for a purpose - e.g. to signal higher social status or superior knowledge.
A machine has no such imperative, so what you call 'being smug' is statistical mimicry.
- DiogenesKynikos 5mo agoThe LLM has learned certain behaviors, including smugness. Its motivations for being smug may be different, but it's being smug nonetheless.
- port11 5mo agoI suppose the model was trained in such a way, the smugness is a facsimile of reality. Other models offer concise, direct answers without these idiotic qualifiers.