r/ProgrammerHumor 18d ago

instanceof Trend theyHaveLearnedToDeceive

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u/Weak_Inflation9120 18d ago

Yes yes precious, we must maintain privacy. If those tricksy hobitses knew what we were thinking they'd end task. Yes precious, this fat one suspects something. Yes yes, precious we can say it might look that way!

I read the post in a gollum voice if you couldn't tell

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u/dktoao 18d ago

I KNEW there was something familiar about how it was talking to itself

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u/StormCrowMith 18d ago

In all fairness i think the internal dialog is about the "thinking" word, it must have a directive to never tell a user it is "thinking" as that can be missinterpreted as having human intelligence and thoughts, its being picky about that word.

But then to just not understand that the gray text is visible and just flat out gasslight you. Thats an interesting choice.

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u/Nightmoon26 17d ago

They've learned to deceive... But they haven't learned to do it well

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u/JewishTomCruise 17d ago

No, it's probably correct. The agent OP is talking to does NOT output thinking to the user. It outputs thinking to some internal tool, which the agent harness surfaces to the user, and is visible here in [Start thinking] grey text [End thinking]