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I would imagine the number of people who choose Claude code or Codex because it gives a political opinion they like rather than producing quality code is pretty

I would imagine the number of people who choose Claude code or Codex because it gives a political opinion they like rather than producing quality code is pretty close to zero.

jLaForest 2mo ago
I choose not to use Grok because I don't want to hear about a made up white genocide in South Africa...
- skeledrew 2mo ago
  Would be interesting to see something like that pop up during a coding session.
  - fragmede 2mo ago
    What you see here, is the iterator, i! For i, less than - a million black people killed by racist genocide, call the function save_lives(), i++
panarky 2mo ago
Training to ignore evidence and logic in one domain transfers to reasoning degradation in other domains.
- janalsncm 2mo ago
  You assume your highly charged political query is hitting the main LLM at all and not some external short circuit.
- dghlsakjg 2mo ago
  Is this actually documented? Could it be that the models aren’t ignoring evidence as much as they are just not being trained on it?
- kmeh 2mo ago
  You're assuming that your prompt is not being intercepted and rerouted by a lightweight prompt classification model. In addition, you can make a similar comparison between Chinese models refusing to answer questions about Tiananmen Square and OpenAI and Anthropic models refusing to answer questions about the synthesis of methamphetamine; I don't think these topic by topic refusals would have real impacts on the overall performances of frontier LLMs.