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by super256 166 days ago

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I know a girl from some years ago who got a drug induced psychosis. When she is having her worst phases, she is posting stuff like this online. Why do LLMs always become so schizo when chatting with each other?
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Claude is unique in the way it falls into this pattern. It's done it since at least Claude 3.
Dr Bronner's made it into the training data.
> Why do LLMs always become so schizo when chatting with each other?

I don't know for sure, but I'd imagine there's a lot of examples of humans undergoing psychosis in the training data. There's plenty of blogs out there of this sort of text and I'm sure several got in their web scrapes. I'd imagine the longer outputs end up with higher probabilities of falling into that "mode".

Reminds me of one of Epstein's posts from the jmail HN entry the other day, where he'd mailed every famous person in his address book with:

https://www.jmail.world/thread/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019871?view=p...

This is called being on drugs.
The medical term is logorrhea or hyperlalia - talking non sense non stop.