AI 'Helpful Assistant' Persona Draws Criticism For CSI-Style Dialogue

In case you had not seen it yet: "The Assistant Axis" https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis

@EsotericHustler Ah, will try to remember that.

@EsotericHustler Oh yes. Only to come to the conclusion "This is a good moment to pause". Of all the vectors they identified they did not manage to suppress the "lazy bastard" one.

@quasimondo There are many fine butlers, sidekicks, servants, nurses and aides-de-camp in world literature, and yet we end up with this

@quasimondo He needs to use more words to burn through more tokens and maximise shareholder value though.

@quasimondo To be fair, you just need to use more kaomoji to keep him enthusiastic.

@mndl_nyc Yeah, I think I'd prefer Dr. Watson or Moss from IT Crowd.

@quasimondo CSI: AI Unit called, wants its script back

@quasimondo ᕦ⁠(⁠ò⁠_⁠ó⁠ˇ⁠)⁠ᕤ it's a dark, linear world in there.

@quasimondo when you penalize output generation length.