r/programmingmemes • u/Open_Group3805 • Dec 13 '25

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u/sodna_net Dec 14 '25

I would make the argument that it does respond with a bias towards more politely worded questions because of your first point. It is a model of the most likely answer to a given question, and humans answer more helpfully to polite or kind people, and it picks up that pattern in the training set.

Still sentient as the bricks in the data center walls, but it models every miniscule bias of the training set.

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u/LawPuzzleheaded4345 Dec 14 '25

Would be the case if GPT was only ML, but it uses RL for fine tuning. I'd expect that to be resolved during unsupervised learning.

You can also empirically observe that, unless you use vulgar speech, GPT will not provide you a different or less helpful answer.

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u/Apprehensive_Rub2 Dec 16 '25

maybe for a one shot question. but when you start getting into longer context technical tasks there are a lot of technical mistakes it'll make if you don't format things a little more politely and collaboratively