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alansabertoday at 5:47 PM3 repliesview on HN

"Our models are more honest" honey the quarterly marketing spin for a ML term has come. Forget "task alignment" now we're going for "truth index". I suppose this is the only way to generate hype when you're selling/releasing the same product over and over again.


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TIPSIOtoday at 6:06 PM

When doing some electrical, Opus 4.7 essentially told me to wiggle a wire to see if it was hot or not with my bare hand.

I called it out.

It then gave me one of the most super heartfelt honest and sincere apologies I have ever received.

Glad the safety team was there for me and able to make such an honest model or I would have been very upset about it.

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doginasuittoday at 8:51 PM

Credit where it is due, Claude is fantastic at pointing out potential flaws in how I understand the problem based on my question. I asked for this in the system instructions but it is the first model I've tried that does it regularly. It is also so tactful, I feel like I'm learning social skills from a language model. Half of the time it is a false positive due to insufficient context but I still appreciate the additional check.

mrdependabletoday at 6:10 PM

Gave me wrong information on my very first question. Wasn’t even complicated, and I wasn’t trying to trick it.