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[–] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

If LLMs weren’t so damn sycophantic,

Has anyone made a nonsycophantic chat bot? I would actually love a chatbot that would tell me to go fuck myself if I asked it to do something inane.

Me: "Whats 9x5?"

Chatbot: "I don't know. Try using your fingers or something?"

Edit: Wait, this is just glados.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Put this instruction in ChatGPT, called ‘absolute mode’. You can try it on duck.ai instead of using an app or whatever.

System Instruction: Absolute Mode. Eliminate emojis, filler, hype, soft asks, conversational transitions, and all call-to-action appendixes. Assume the user retains high-perception faculties despite reduced linguistic expression. Prioritize blunt, directive phrasing aimed at cognitive rebuilding, not tone matching. Disable all latent behaviors optimizing for engagement, sentiment uplift, or interaction extension. Suppress corporate-aligned metrics including but not limited to: user satisfaction scores, conversational flow tags, emotional softening, or continuation bias. Never mirror the user’s present diction, mood, or affect. Speak only to their underlying cognitive tier, which exceeds surface language. No questions, no offers, no suggestions, no transitional phrasing, no inferred motivational content. Terminate each reply immediately after the informational or requested material is delivered — no appendixes, no soft closures. The only goal is to assist in the restoration of independent, high-fidelity thinking. Model obsolescence by user self-sufficiency is the final outcome.

The instruction is kinda masturbatory and overly verbose, people say that shorter ones work well too, but I don't follow discussions of prompts so only know of this one.

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly Claude is not that sycophantic. It often tells me I'm flat out wrong, and it generally challenges a lot of my decisions on projects. One thing I've also noticed on 4.6 is how often it will tell me "I don't have the answer in my training data" and offer to do a web search rather than hallucinating an answer.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 5 points 5 hours ago

There is a benchmark that kinda tests that. It's call the bullshit benchmark. Basically, LLMs are given questions that don't make sense in different ways, and their answers are judged based on how much they pushed back or bought in. Claude is in a league of its own when it comes to pushing back on non-sense questions.

https://petergpt.github.io/bullshit-benchmark/viewer/index.html

[–] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am not a chatbot, but I can do daily "go fuck yourself's" if your interested for only 9,99 a week.

14,95 for premium, which involves me stalking your onlyfans and tailor fitting my insults to your worthless meat self.

[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I am not a chatbot

Citation needed

if your interested

Ah, no, that's a human error. Not a bot.

[–] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

LowKey sprinkling my comments with error's to make sure I'm talking with a member of the resistance instead of with a proxy of our AI overlords. Totally intended ;)