Rebecca Starr
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Linguistics updates from around the National University of Singapore and elsewhere, from Dr. Rebecca Lurie Starr.
Then, I asked it why it didn't give me that answer initially. It replied that in its training corpus, this type of question is typically asked of a human. So, naturally, it responded assuming a human was the addressee of the question. 5/?
April 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Then, I asked it why it didn't give me that answer initially. It replied that in its training corpus, this type of question is typically asked of a human. So, naturally, it responded assuming a human was the addressee of the question. 5/?
I was finally able to get an answer about why an LLM style-shifts when I asked it explicitly to think about why an LLM like ChatGPT would style-shift and not a human. 4/?
April 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I was finally able to get an answer about why an LLM style-shifts when I asked it explicitly to think about why an LLM like ChatGPT would style-shift and not a human. 4/?
Then I asked it what source of information it was using to make these claims. It turns out, this response was based solely on its understanding of how humans style-shift. 3/?
April 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Then I asked it what source of information it was using to make these claims. It turns out, this response was based solely on its understanding of how humans style-shift. 3/?
The Singlish disappeared and was replaced by American slang ("lowkey", etc.). When I asked ChatGPT what had prompted it to shift, here's what it initially told me. 2/?
April 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The Singlish disappeared and was replaced by American slang ("lowkey", etc.). When I asked ChatGPT what had prompted it to shift, here's what it initially told me. 2/?