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KaiserProtoday at 7:04 AM1 replyview on HN

I've noticed that it also imposes american moral judgements on certain things, even though it reasons (sometimes) in the native language.

I was trying to work out how and when to use swear words, and the relative power index of them. it translated english swear words into the target language then lectured me on not using them.

It took a bunch of prodding for it to actually think as the target language to then get the (mostly) correct response.


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social_quotienttoday at 8:44 AM

Would be curious about the model and the prompt for this.

Not kidding at all. I had a similar issue with a project where I needed to classify images into specific demographics, and Gemini, while capable, was entirely not going to do the task… until in my JSON response I left room for it to tell me why this was not a good idea and why it was culturally insensitive. Then boom… full JSON array: hair color, eye color, skin color, fitness level, likely ethnicity, likely country of origin, and about 10 other values.

You’re probably wondering what on earth I was working on. I was matching Ai gen headshots to Ai voices so that in an app the voice picker had human (Ai) faces.