Comment by rickette

18 days ago

"what model are you using, exact name please" is usually the first prompt I enter when trying out something.

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking responds with

> I am currently running on the Gemini model.

Gemini 1.5 Flash responds with

> I'm using Gemini 2.0 Flash.

I'm not even going to go on a limb here and say that question isn't going to give you an accurate response.

  • Yeah, they need something in their system prompt to tell their name or else they have absolutely no idea what they are and will hallucinate to 100% based on training data. If you're lucky, the AI just might guess right based on these circumstances.

    It's not unusual for AI's to think they're OpenAI/ChatGPT because it's become so popular that it's leaked into the buzz it's trained on.

  • You'd think they would include this kind of detail in the training set, but it gets overlooked.

You'd be surprised at how confused some models are about who they are.

  • Indeed, asking the model which model it is might be one of the worst ways to find that information out