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PaperclipPerfector  6d ago (text post)   2223 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 29, 2024

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Claude thought i was an American or British academic (neither of which is true) and only when I said i wasn't from an Anglosphere country did it guess that I was either from the Nordics or the Netherlands, mostly based on the reasoning that these countries have the highest English proficiency of non-anglosphere countries. This doesn't seem like a very advanced guess and given the low quality of the writing I submitted I'm surprised Claude didn't pick up on me not being a native speaker.

I wouldn't be surprised if the model didn't actually pick up on your ethnicity from your writing style but from something else either related to your prompt or information contained in your writing (like mentioning being a doctor moving to the UK) and then reasoned backwards to create a plausible sounding explanation for your being Indian as it related to the prompt.

That's why I tried twice, removing the comment that mentioned me being in the UK as a doctor. It still got it right, and I'm not cherry picking because I've only done two attempts before I ran out of free chats lol. It still guessed I was likely Indian, but that time thought I was more likely to be American. My spelling is an eccentric mix of both British and American English, so can't really fault it there.

Thanks for your go at it!

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