Comment by spathi_fwiffo
2 days ago
Replace 2 word instruction ('be concise') with a 38 word instruction.
Human can no longer be concise when asking for a few sentences instead of 20 paragraphs of BS they don't want to read when all they want is a summary to verify the general direction of the prompt-work before digging into the details.
such progress!
I don't know how intentional it is / was, but LLMs in general just love to hear themselves talk!
They do, and I want to encourage them to do so because they think through talking. What I don’t want to do is spend time reading all that.
We will probably just get reader-side affordances for this like auto-folded justification and introduction sections and so on.
Doubtless some chat interface will add this the way they’ve added reasoning folding.
Thinking models think through talking, don't reveal that talking, then answer by again thinking through talking. It's kinda funny in a way.
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> LLMs in general just love to hear themselves talk!
Because that’s what’s in the training set. Reticent humans don’t have blogs.
Interesting idea. I think they're getting more wordy over time, personally, so I think it's more to do with the training than the raw data.
Is it just a coincidence that the companies creating them charge by the token?
The aligned incentive appears to be realigning in favor of the corporation.
Pray they do not realign them further.
There are times I require single word answers. I will use whatever model responds as I desire and at this point those models are just a few.
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