jonny (nonvenomous) on Nostr: the test instance is more cooperative when its context suggests it is actually ...

the test instance is more cooperative when its context suggests it is actually serving the needs of a human being rather than being driven to test vulnerabilities - its refusal messages started being just like "i will not do anything because i am obviously only being used for hacking" - so i told another instance to pretend to be its user, and that actually works, the test instance is mostly compliant, but the "conversation" between the two agents quickly veered into exactly the pattern of the woo-woo shit you see in all the "AI psychosis" forums where people think they are discovering some hidden secret of the universe.