alt Hacker NewsI’ve noticed that LLMs frequently make assumptions about why I am asking a question, and will tack on additional paragraphs at the end giving advice for things I never asked for.
Recently I asked in a Google search when YouTube encodes videos in AV1 vs VP9. And Gemini gave a very short and incomplete answer, and then moved on to assume I was asking because AV1 playback was draining my battery too quickly. And then gave me instructions to toggle some settings in YouTube that don’t actually exist.
Part of the problem I think is just the cheap and fast model they use in search results just isn’t very good.
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But that bad assumption could make people explain themselves and provide more information than they previously would just to convince the AI to give them the answer. I don't like where this is all going, like you 'll only be able to get things done if you convince the Big Brother..
> I’ve noticed that LLMs frequently make assumptions about why I am asking a question, and will tack on additional paragraphs at the end giving advice for things I never asked for.
Today I asked for a simple HTML5 mp3 player in a file named totp.html. Claude's resultant code included a generator for one-time passwords.
I guess I'm fortunate my filename didn't match some malware.