I typed all this up for someone who posted a… very strangely written question regarding something they noticed with AI, but it appears to be deleted/removed… and, well, I wanna know if I got their question rephrased in a less… difficult to understand format. And then the answer to said question, because I find it interesting as well.

What I typed in response:

After parsing the insanity that is your writing style and… English as a second language? Allow me to confirm and summarize, because I find this question fascinating.

You’ve come across a LLM trend associated with said LLM being given instruction to describe/pretend to be a human named Delilah. LLM’s have gone viral at times for being instructed to formulate their output to sound like famous people with what appears to be resonable accuracy. But what goes into that ability is human words previously written associated with that person (or rather, their full name/titles/etc), as well as purposful restrictions given to the LLM directly (like, don’t output the N word).

Another lesser/totally unquantifiable factor in the output’s “tone” is result of errors in the blackbox algorithm that associates the “words” (not truly words I know, but essentially) in ways that aren’t what you’d expect.

(Here’s where my slight confusion mostly is) Each of these “factors” associated with the tone of the output… you’ve given names to? Or maybe my entirely self-researched knowledge has missed an agreed-upon naming system for these “characters”? I’m not quite sure.

And now your question and qualifers : Is there a pop culture/historic person or character named Delilah who is associated with furry stuff? Because you have been looking at some of the interesting mistaken/innacurate tones adopted by a LLM, and you’ve noticed that asl the LLM to output as if it was Delilah, and the results are furry related. And typically this sort of issue is mostly due to overlapping/similar names in the model’s training (as well as much stranger links without any explanation as to how they formed). And you’re research on “Delilah” hasn’t turned up anything giving reason for the LLM’s furry related output

… is that more or less what you are saying?

  • @j4k3English
    0•1 month ago

    I have nothing to say. I can’t read past the insults to start. I think I’m in the wrong place here ATM. This has been a depressing experience I do not wish to continue.

    • RayquetzalcoatlEnglish
      10•1 month ago

      I don’t think anybody insulted you mate - you wrote something that was quite hard to understand, and we were curious about what you meant. OP has clearly put quite a lot of effort into rephrasing and trying to understand your post - that’s as far from an insult as I can imagine.

      • koraOP
        2•1 month ago

        Thanks for recognizing the effort.

        But in the brief look at replies that I gave, it did appear to be rather unkind, and certainly missing any reply of use. I wouldn’t be surprised that it only got worse in the time I took to make my comment (me be slow typist), and can’t say I blame OP for being upset.

    • koraOP
      0•1 month ago

      Thats unfortunate. I’m sorry that has happened to you, and totally understand you no longer wanted to continue the discussion.

      Would you like for me to take down my post? I am interested myself, but lack the context/cause to adequately ask the question, but will totally be ok taking if down if you’d like.

      Edit: and in case I’ve misunderstood, and its my posts content you’ve found to be insulting… all I can say is that it wasn’t my intent, and I’m sorry if that is the case. I did find your post difficult, but I believe I’ve only said anything that might be taken as negative in reference to the post itself and not you in any way.