Does your AI perform badly because you — you, specifically — are a bad person?

Consistent helpfulness for everyone, unless you're a bit of a scumbag

Claude really got me lately. I’d given it an elaborate prompt in an attempt to summon an AGI-level answer to my third-grade level question. Embarrassingly, it included the phrase, “this work might be reviewed by probability theorists, who are very pedantic”. Claude didn’t miss a beat. Came back with a great answer and made me call for a medic: “That prompt isn’t doing what you think it’s doing, but sure”. Fuuuuck 🔥 (I know we wanted enough intelligence to build a Dyson sphere around undiscovered stars, but did we want enough to call us out on our embarrassing bullshit??) It got me to…

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