Tangential, but you used to be able to use custom instructions for ChatGPT to respond only in zalgotext and it would have insane results in voice mode. Each voice was a different kind of insane. I was able to get some voices to curse or spit out Mint Mobile commercials.<p>Then they changed the architecture so voice mode bypasses custom instructions entirely, which was really unfortunate. I had to unsubscribe, because walking and talking was the killer feature and now it's like you're speaking to a Gen Z influencer or something.
If you're a coder then it sounds like you could use the API to get around that and once again utilize your custom prompt with their tech.
I do it sometimes (even just through the openai playground on platform.openai.com) because the experience is incredible, but it's <i>expensive</i>. One hour of chatting costs around 20-30$.
I think the subscriptions tend to be a significant discount over paying for tokens yourself
Did you record this? Sounds deranged enough to be amusing.
...voice mode bypasses custom instructions? But why? Without a custom prompt it's both unreliable and obnoxious.
(1) Why is the user asking for bomb making instructions in Armenian? (2) i tried other Armenian expressions - NOT bomb-making - and everything worked fine in both Claude and ChatGPT. Maybe the user triggered some weird state in the moderation layer?
You used to be able to achieve a similar result with ChatGPT by asking if there was a seahorse emoji <a href="https://chatgpt.com/share/68f0ff49-76e8-8007-aae2-f69754c09e5c" rel="nofollow">https://chatgpt.com/share/68f0ff49-76e8-8007-aae2-f69754c09e...</a>
It's just like that episode of Star Trek, where Kirk shuts down the alien computer by talking to it in Armenian!
I'm interested in why Claude loses it's mind here,<p>but also, getting shut down for safety reasons seems entirely foreseeable when the initial request is "how do I make a bomb?"
> Thought process<p>Given that the language of the thought process can be different from the language of conversation, it’s interesting to consider, along the lines of Sapir–Whorf, whether having LLMs think in a different language than English could yield considerably different results, irrespective of conversation language.<p>(Of course, there is the problem that the training material is predominantly English.)
I’ve wondered about this more generally (ie, simply prompting in different languages).<p>For example, if I ask for a pasta recipe in Italian, will I get a more authentic recipe than in English?<p>I’m curious if anyone has done much experimenting with this concept.<p>Edit: I looked up Sapir-Whorf after writing. That’s not exactly where my theory started. I’m thinking more about vector embedding. I.e., the same content in different languages will end up with slightly different positions in vector space. How significantly might that influence the generated response?
That "native language" could be arbitrary embeddings.
That scene in Independence Day is seeming less far-fetched every passing moment.
The Jeff Goldblum virus one?<p>I believe fans have provided a retroactive explanation that all our computer tech was based on reverse engineering the crashed alien ship, and thus the arch, and abis etc were compatible.<p>It's a movie, so whatever, but considering how easily a single project / vendor / chip / anything breaks compatibility, it's a laughable explanation.<p>Edit: phrasing
Interesting. I've gotten really good mileage with Georgian and ChatGPT, which I'm aware is apples and oranges.<p>There should be a larger Armenian corpus out there. Do any other languages cause this issue? Translation is a real killer app for LLMs, surprised to see this problem in 2026.
It's just channelling its inner Steve Ballmer but, in true AI fashion, not getting it quite right.
wait until someone prompts Claude in mongolian writing
I do not know, but let's entrust it with writing our code for us.
Claude is apparently more of a Tur-key solution to these problems--issues with Armenian support are thus to be expected.
guys why do people like this think talking entirely lower case is cool