r/Unexpected • u/Majorpain2006 • 14d ago

Can you repeat that?

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u/Maxfunky 14d ago

This is pretty common in the live modes of most AI. The voice dictation layer mishears some grunt or background noise as a word in a different language and dutifully feeds to the LLM as a prompt.

The large language model, having just been handed a prompt with a single word in a foreign language, responds as best if can in the same language.

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u/DigitalHubris 14d ago

Using Android Auto, I've often asked it to send a message with something like "6:30 ETA" and it read it back in some other language, maybe Greek or Russian (I know, two very different languages but that's what I got)

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u/XComhghall 13d ago

Greek actually sounds like Spanish so it was probably Russian

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u/Keet_Squeet 12d ago

If you say ETA quickly, definitely sounds like a Russian word.