Speaking of smoking guns, anybody else reckon Claude overuses that term a lot? Seems anytime I give it some debugging question, it'll claim some random thing like a version number or whatever, is a "smoking gun"
Soon the Andy 3000 will finally be a reality...
I still do - but I used to, too.
Btw, is the injection of "absolutely" and "in $YEAR" prevalent in other LLMs as well, or is it just in Gemini's dialect?
I think there was a setting about time and location which finally got rid of that behavior.
Grok, ChatGPT, and Claude all have these tics, and even the pro versions will use their signature phrases multiple times in an answer. I have to wonder if it's deliberate, to make detecting AI easier?
It's nauseating.
Considering what these LLMs bring to the table, I think a little tolerance for their cringe phrases is in order.
Looking back we already had similar problems, when we had to ask our colleagues, students, whomever "Did you get your proposed solution from the answers part or the questions part of a stackoverflow article?" :-0
Maybe it has something to do with your profile/memories?
Oh shoot! A shooting.
So the TL;DR of this post is: don't change this setting unless you know what you're doing.