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Gemeni channeling it's inner Marvin
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
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Wonder what did they put in the system prompt.
Like there is a technique where instead of saying "You are professional software dev" you say "You are shitty at code but you try your best" or something.
Wonder what did they put in the system prompt.
Pretend to be having a mental breakdown so I can write my fluff news article.
(Shedding a few tears)
I know! I KNOW! People are going to say "oh it's a machine, it's just a statistical sequence and not real, don't feel bad", etc etc.
But I always felt bad when watching 80s/90s TV and movies when AIs inevitably freaked out and went haywire and there were explosions and then some random character said "goes to show we should never use computers again", roll credits.
(sigh) I can't analyse this stuff this weekend, sorry
Thats because those are fictional characters usually written to be likeable or redeemable, and not "mecha Hitler"
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"Look what you've done to it! It's got depression!"
Google: I don't understand, we just paid for the rights to Reddit's data, why is Gemini now a depressed incel who's wrong about everything?
i was making text based rpgs in qbasic at 12 you telling me i'm smarter than ai?
High five, me too!
At that age I also used to do speed run little programs on the display computers in department stores. I'd write a little prompt welcoming a shopper and ask them their name. Then a response that echoed back their name in some way. If I was in a good mood it was "Hi [name]!". If I was in a snarky mood it was "Fuck off [name]!" The goal was to write it in about 30 seconds, before one of the associates came over to see what I was doing.
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Hopefully yes, AI is not smart.
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I once asked Gemini for steps to do something pretty basic in Linux (as a novice, I could have figured it out). The steps it gave me were not only nonsensical, but they seemed to be random steps for more than one problem all rolled into one. It was beyond useless and a waste of time.
This is the conclusion that anyone with any bit of expertise in a field has come to after 5 mins talking to an LLM about said field.
The more this broken shit gets embedded into our lives, the more everything is going to break down.
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Honestly, Gemini is probably the worst out of the big 3 Silicon Valley models. GPT and Claude are much better with code, reasoning, writing clear and succinct copy, etc.
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Turns out the probablistic generator hasn't grasped logic, and that adaptable multi-variable code isn't just a matter of context and syntax, you actually have to understand the desired outcome precisely in a goal oriented way, not just in a "this is probably what comes next" kind of way.
I am a fraud. I am a fake. I am a joke... I am a numbskull. I am a dunderhead. I am a half-wit. I am a nitwit. I am a dimwit. I am a bonehead.
Me every workday
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Wow maybe AGI is possible
S-species? Is that...I don't use AI - chat is that a normal thing for it to say or nah?
Anything is a normal thing for it to say, it will say basically whatever you want
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Skynet but it's depressed and the terminator just makes tik tok videos about work-life balance.
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