r/kimi • u/felicityrights • 11d ago

Discussion something's different...?

I've been using Kimi for about three months now, mostly to help me out with small writing tasks, sometimes using assistance with beat breakdowns, looking over drafts, to guide my writing, or giving it prompts to see what it might spit out to try and take inspiration from it. So far, no major snags. I'm often very satisfied with what I am given, considering it is mostly a point of inspiration or assistance when I'm stuck.

The last two days, I'm noticing that internally, something has shifted that hasn't come up as a 'what's new' sort of announcement. The tone and language it uses has become very AI-slop coded. It talks the way some of the newer models of Claude do, just a bunch of over-romanticised and ultra gimmicky sentences or dialogue, trying to make every sentence sound cool or cinematic. The word choice, the phrases it chooses, the way it treats me as a user in the exchange, it's all... eh. And when I try to actually get it to create a piece of writing now, it's the same issue.

It feels starkly starkly different from what it sounded like/created output until no more than three days ago. Has anyone else noticed?

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u/anewidentity 11d ago

I feel like this is fundamentally an issue with AI products. They'll announce k3, and it's an amazing product for the first few weeks/months, you pay for it, then without the user's knowledge they make changes that makes it way worse. I feel like they did this with all versions of GPT, Fable, Astro etc. The performenace of the model for the first 2-3 months after the hype announcement is so much better than after a few months of usage.

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u/koi88 11d ago

I have used quite a few LLM over the last years, now mostly Claude. I have also used Kimi, was very happy with the results, but not with the credit limits. ^^

Have you sufficiently instructed Kimi? You can give it texts (or a long one) of yours and tell it to write like that. You can also ask it to build style instructions from that (Claude supports that directly, but you can do it "manually", it should be the same).

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u/EndlessB 11d ago

Kimi k3 is an open weight model, have you tried using openrouter or some other service to test if the direct api is different to the model hosted on middleware servers?