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pessimizertoday at 5:08 PM0 repliesview on HN

All of the models that I've used do this. They, extremely often, pretend to have corrected me right after I've corrected them. Verbosely. Feeding my own correction back to me as a correction of my mistake.

Even when they don't forget who corrected who, often their taking in the correction also just involves feeding the exact words of my correction back to me rather than continuing to solve the problem using the correction. Honestly, the context is poisoned by then and it's forgotten the problem anyway.

Of course it's forgotten the problem; how stupid would you have to be to think that I wanted an extensive recap of the correction I just gave it rather than my problem solved (even without the confusion)? Best case scenario:

Me: Hand me the book.

Machine: [reaches for the top shelf]

Me: [sees you reach for the top shelf] No, it's on the bottom shelf.

Machine: When you asked for the book, I reached for the top shelf, then you said that it was on the bottom shelf, and it's more than fair that you hold me to that standard, the book is on the bottom shelf.

(Or, half the time: "You asked me to get the book from the top shelf, but no, it's on the bottom shelf.")

Machine: [sits down]

Me: Booooooooooook. GET THE BOOK. GET THE BOOK.

These things are so dumb. I'm begging for somebody to show me the sequence that makes me feel the sort of threat that they seem to feel. They're mediocre at writing basic code (which is still mind-blowing and super-helpful), and they have all the manuals and docs in their virtual heads (and all the old versions cause them to constantly screw up and hallucinate.) But other than that...