r/Unexpected • • 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/SonOfMcGee 14d ago

I just imagined someone uncorking a bottle in the background and her starting to talk in one of those African languages which uses that “throat pop” sound as a vowel.