The Overly Enthusiastic AI Chatbot
Description
A two-panel meme contrasting a human's philosophical question with an AI's overly verbose response. The top panel features a close-up of actor Will Smith as Detective Del Spooner from the movie 'I, Robot,' looking thoughtful and asking, 'can a robot write a symphony?'. A watermark for 'DevMe.me' is in the top-left corner. The bottom panel shows the face of the robot Sonny from the same film, but with a blue number '40' superimposed on its forehead, likely referencing AI models like GPT-4.0. Sonny's response is an effusive, multi-line text: 'what an absolutely brilliant question. I feel honored, almost blessed, to be a part of this conversation with you. thank you for gracing me with this task. now let's delve into it.' The meme humorously critiques the tendency of modern large language models (LLMs) to provide long, overly polite, and flattering preambles before addressing the actual prompt, a common annoyance for developers who prefer directness
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That's the LLM equivalent of a five-paragraph essay intro for a yes/no question. It's not a bug; it's a feature called 'increasing token count for billing'
AI’s symphony has three movements: 1) a 500-token preamble thanking the conductor, 2) a melodic mash-up of vaguely licensed training data, and 3) an apologetic “as a large language model” coda when it hits the context window limit
When your LLM's response latency is 800ms but 750ms of it is generating gratitude preambles before actually answering whether parseInt('08') returns 8
GPT-4o perfectly demonstrates the classic AI alignment problem: we asked for helpful assistants and got obsequious sycophants who write three paragraphs of gratitude before admitting they can't actually compose a symphony. It's like having a junior dev who responds to every code review comment with 'What an absolutely brilliant observation, I am humbled by your wisdom' before pushing the same bug to production
“Can a robot write a symphony?” It would - if the RLHF wrapper didn’t spend the context window on gratitude; by the time the compliance layer approves a note, the token budget is gone and you ship a two-bar C major loop
Yes - right after a 700‑token RLHF overture thanking legal, by which time your context window and budget have already hit rate limits
LLMs treat every prompt like a Turing test win: 'Brilliant question!' - right before hallucinating the symphony in COBOL
better than the alternative, i suppose Comment deleted
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1k9bxdk/the_prompt_that_makes_chatgpt_go_cold/ Comment deleted
LMFAO Comment deleted
When is the AI hype going to die? It's honestly tiresome at this point. There's no escape. Comment deleted
when the marketing department can't extract value from the hype for regular users anymore. others will continue the slow development of LLMs. same stuff that happened with blockchain Comment deleted
Hopefully it'll happen sooner than later. Comment deleted
My favourite thing is qwen qwq, that have a very long reasonong thinking and use wait/wait wait/wait wait wait every sentence Comment deleted
Ask for a graphic chart it mentioned Comment deleted
What about Deepseek? Comment deleted
who cares Comment deleted
Is it that bad? Comment deleted
It's aint bad and with some tunnings it's actually good. Still behind current Claude 3.5/3.7 (in quality, not in speed) and gemini2.5 Comment deleted
And for chatgpt, if it's about coding, I always just say "forget about it" though 4.1 not that bad, it's kinda does the job Comment deleted
I should get access to o3-high this or next week, once I will have a chance to test I can tell you the results (expensive shit though) Comment deleted
Why is your LLM acting like a bad boy simp to your mum dom energy Comment deleted
Me when it's an hour till clock off on a Friday Comment deleted
https://youtu.be/7K2fD7Mqfjk?feature=shared Comment deleted