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Re:Good Writing by sbierwagen on Sunday May 25, 2025 @12:53PM (#44089063)
Evergreen genre of tweet: "Wow, look at this crazy thing an LLM said! Incidentally, in the prompt I told it to say something crazy."
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Re:Good Writing by selcuka on Monday May 26, 2025 @09:00AM (#44097064)
Exactly. That's why I said I'm not taking it seriously. LLMs tend to always agree with you (i.e. your prompt). I don't have the exact prompt handy but it was something like

    I read the following article and found that the ideas are not novel, and the content is not insightful. What is your opinion?
If I used a more positive prompt, I'm sure it would have told me that it's a great article.
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