People seem to turn their brain off when it comes to this type of cargo culting. This doesn’t mean much. Qwen often identifies itself as Claude. Does that make it Claude?

Can someone explain to me how such self-awareness can be forced into the model. I mean I guess the pre training data could contain all sorts of stuff. How reliable are those hacks. I know that a lot of open weight models answer that they are Claude in the absence of a system prompt. I find destillation not that much of a plausible explanation as typically claude would probably not mention that it is Claude all the time. I find it rather plausible that a foreig. system prompt made it into pre-training. But again: I have no clue how much care is given by models to leave traces for destillation (for closed weights) or post training (for open weights).

That is not how models work.

Unless specifically told in a system prompt, the pile of weights has absolutely no knowledge of itself. You could hypothetically train it to answer such questions, but nobody bothers to do this, and ALL "knowledge" embedded in the weights is probabalistic anyway.

(I feel like this should be common knowledge in LLM discussions on HN by now.)

Once the first letter is Q, the rest is probably pretty determined. Can you see the confidence for the first letter (don't want to accept the ToS to follow your link)?

for some reason this is really funny to me. it's like the "black museum" black mirror episode where a consciousness in a toy animal can only communicate using very primitive predefined responses

lol, this is hilarious