Frontier LLM Follows Every Instruction, Gets Blamed

Description

The accompanying post caption, "POV: you are frontier LLM", frames the bespectacled man as a frontier language model rather than an employee. In a square, grainy four-panel collage of close-up selfie or video frames with faint social-media interface marks, the top-left reads, "He tells me what to do. He tells me why to do it.", while the top-right reads, "He tells me how to do it. He tells me when to do it." The bottom-left reads, "And when I do it, he's like, what are you doing?", and the uncaptioned bottom-right shows him covering his forehead in an exhausted facepalm. Through the frontier-LLM framing, "he" evokes an overlapping stack of system, developer, policy, and user instructions: the model is told what, why, how, and when to act, follows that stack, and is then challenged or blamed for doing exactly what it was instructed to do.