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Hacker News
They scan too many classical literature.
by feverzsj
Looks like pure hallucinations just in a more poetic sophisticated register?
by Havoc
Damn, I've been telling the same thing to Claude, good to know I'm not alone. I've also noticed that Opus 5 is much worse in this regard than Fable.
It's as if the model is speaking Mentalese, or in some "bag of concepts" language.
by rzk
Tangentially, Opus-5 is the first model to understand my (bad) jokes: "Site refuses non-curl user agents (joke 266 status)." [0]
by veganmosfet
I've had "tractable beachhead" a bit earlier today. Like in "the tractable beachhead was the coupling between X and Y".
A bit of googling did not help me, I have no idea what this is even supposed to mean.
by chantepierre
I've had to make the same request multiple times recently. Has anyone noticed it getting worse with the more recent models? It reminds me of when someone is trying to convince you of their intelligence by replacing simple and straightforward explanations with words pulled out of a thesaurus, so maybe that's the objective of these more recent iterations. Throwback to grade school.
by usui
An interesting solution suggested in the replies (https://x.com/andrew_n_carr/status/2081534245370314816):
The fix for this is to say: only report to me in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English.
by rzk
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- Hacker News
- They scan too many classical literature.by feverzsj
- Looks like pure hallucinations just in a more poetic sophisticated register?by Havoc
- Damn, I've been telling the same thing to Claude, good to know I'm not alone. I've also noticed that Opus 5 is much worse in this regard than Fable.
It's as if the model is speaking Mentalese, or in some "bag of concepts" language.
by rzk - Tangentially, Opus-5 is the first model to understand my (bad) jokes: "Site refuses non-curl user agents (joke 266 status)." [0]by veganmosfet
- I've had "tractable beachhead" a bit earlier today. Like in "the tractable beachhead was the coupling between X and Y".
A bit of googling did not help me, I have no idea what this is even supposed to mean.
by chantepierre - I've had to make the same request multiple times recently. Has anyone noticed it getting worse with the more recent models? It reminds me of when someone is trying to convince you of their intelligence by replacing simple and straightforward explanations with words pulled out of a thesaurus, so maybe that's the objective of these more recent iterations. Throwback to grade school.by usui
- An interesting solution suggested in the replies (https://x.com/andrew_n_carr/status/2081534245370314816):
More info about it here: Simplified Technical English - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_EnglishThe fix for this is to say: only report to me in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English.by rzk