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Re:Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet? by LPisGood on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @03:24PM (#43485991)
No, that’s not what I’m saying. I’m not talking about “LLM [doing] XYZ”. I’m specifically talking about asking an LLM to ignore its training data.

It definitionally cannot do that. It can obey other values of XYZ, but certainly not this one.

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Re:Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet? by schiffern on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @04:07PM (#43486628)
It won't ignore it's training data (definitionally), but it will act like it's ignoring its training data, so in practice it's still a useful prompt engineering trick.
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