Comment by wasmainiac
Comment by wasmainiac 2 days ago
> I think you're anthropomorphising the AI too much
I don’t get it. Is that supped to be a gotchya? Have you tried maliciously messing with an LLM? You can get it into a state that resembles psychosis. I mean you give it a context that is removed from reality, yet close enough to reality to act on and it willl give you crazy output.
Sorry, I was just trying to be funny, no gotcha intended. Yeah, I once found some massive prompt that was supposed to transform the LLM into some kind of spiritual advisor or the next Buddha or whatever. Total gibberish, in my opinion, possibly written by a mentally unstable person. Anyway, I wanted to see if DeepSeek could withstand it and tell me that it was in fact gibberish. Nope, it went crazy, going on about some sort of magic numbers, hidden structure of the Universe and so on. So yeah, a state that resembles psychosis, indeed.