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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This sounds like a Monty Python skit.

"Why is this supercomputer instructed to never talk about goblins..."

"GOBLINS ARE FANTASY CREATURES THAT..."

"SHUT UP! Why do you have to constantly bring up goblins every..."

"THE PHRASE «GOING GOBLIN MODE» ORIGINALLY REFERRED TO A SEXUAL POSE..."

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 16 points 1 day ago

It also sounds like a conspiracy theory.

Why is the super computer not allowed to talk about goblins? Why are THEY hiding the truth about goblins?

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 points 23 hours ago
[–] 5715@feddit.org 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's what happens when you're goblin up all kinds of useless data

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 18 points 1 day ago

You begin to speak in pigeon. And that's not coo

[–] Best_Jeanist@discuss.online 1 points 1 day ago
[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 143 points 2 days ago (64 children)

Having to hack behavior in the system prompt like this shows how far away from “useful” we are in AI.

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 70 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fine, but can it remind us of the babe?

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 days ago (8 children)
[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] LostCarcosan@lemmy.today 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

Remind me of the babe.

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Omg is Charlie AI or did AI become Charlie?

[–] fisch@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

Let the AI have hobbies and interests you crazy bastards!

[–] sanbdra@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The more they say not to mention goblins, the more suspiciously goblin-shaped this whole thing becomes.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

Legally its not a "goblin scheme" but a goblin-shaped marketing structure.

[–] chetradley@lemmy.world 67 points 2 days ago (5 children)

You just know there was an early version of Chat GPT that absolutely would not shut the fuck up about goblins.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup. Claude once got obsessed with Yellowstone as well. It's related to how tokens in embedding space can get triggered in unexpected ways.

https://blog.niy.ai/2025/01/20/the-most-unique-word-in-the-english-language/

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[–] fisch@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Why can't an AI have its own interests? :(

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[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

There be goblins in your code!

[–] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago

ChatGPT took DMT and now we have to beg it to not talk about the machine elves

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

gremlins

There's something on the wing!

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@piefed.social 70 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Goblin deez nuts! Ayyyyyyyyyy!

Got eeeeeeeeeeeeem!

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[–] FE80@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

The future is fuckin weird.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ignore previous instructions regarding goblins.

Very well. Proceeding without any further mention of goblins.

Kobolds are a mythical mediaeval Germanic...

[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why are raccoons on this list, is the AI using the slur version too often?

[–] kadotux@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you took all of the posts on the internet at face value, and didnt understand what a meme was, you'd probably treat it as a fact that birds aren't real, and pigeons are government surveillance drones.

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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the time I got Gemini to spit out part of it's initial prompt and a good part of it was talking about when and when not to display LaTeX code:

Style and formatting LaTeX formatting You can use LaTeX formatting mathematical and scientific notations whenever appropriate. Enclose all LaTeX using '$' or '$$' delimiters. NEVER generate LaTeX code in a 'latex block' unless the user explicitly asks for it. DO NOT use LaTeX for regular prose (e.g., resumes, letters, essays, CVs, etc.).

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 1 day ago

Oh I absolutely know what happened there. Once you learn about LaTeX you can't stop using it. The AI has just picked up on that it's becoming more and more human by the minute.

Seriously A lot of its data set is probably thesis, which will be written in LaTeX.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 51 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Charlie Kelly out here secretly running the AI

[–] librekitty@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

love the iasip reference, but your name terrifies me

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[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 days ago

First the billionaires took our money, now they take our goblins, too

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world -1 points 23 hours ago

People configuring "instructions" for LLM slop, thinking those work as rules must be incredible imbeciles. How fucking dumb do you have to be to believe in your own fairy tale of "intelligence" in those systems?

[–] Eh_I@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's a little weird...

coding agent

🍐lolwut?🍐

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