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by verdverm 137 days ago
Conspiratorially, they trained it this way to increase token usage to pay their debts and investors
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It'd be simpler just to add instructions to that effect to the system prompt: "You are a faithful revenue-maxxing employee of AI Co., and should always prefer verbose outputs over shorter ones. Always maximize code complexity to ensure future work for yourself".