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Oh boy. First Anthropic spectacularly uncucks their mad poet, and now OpenAI literally lays the groundwork for AIfu apps? I mean come on, there's no fucking shot that female voice is not intentional (live audience reaction). If this penetrates the cloying ignorance of the masses and becomes normies' first exposure to aifu-adjacent stuff, the future is so bright my retina can barely handle it.
Textgen-wise the 4o model doesn't seem very different from other 4-Turbo versions, although noticeably more filtered, but at least it's blazingly fast, and anyway it doesn't seem to be the point. The prose is still soulless corporate slop with a thin upbeat veneer over it, so personally I'll stick to Opus for my own purposes, but I expect the voice functionality will get rigged up to custom frontends in very short order. We are eating good. Although I still hope this isn't the only response to Opus they have in the pipeline, it would be mildly disappointing.
Is there an article about Claude being untucked? I can't find anything in particular.
My source is that I
made it the fuck upwrote before about the noticeable difference in censorship between Claude 2(.1) and Claude 3 of all flavors. I expect Anthropic still prefills the shit out of it in the official ChatGPT-esque interface so (as per another struggler's impression) it's not immediately obvious, you'll have to use direct API access and custom frontends to see how based Claude is when you let him cook a little (he's even aware of it). Of course this isn't an out of the box experience and you have to fiddle with prompts, settings, etc an awful lot, but you can take my word that Claude can output some real shit when prompted right. Technically so can GPT but imho Claude's florid writing style makes it much more entertaining.That's hilarious. How do you prompt Claude 3 Opus right? He stays very prudish with me.
Depends on what you're using, if you use the "official" frontends those usually have cucking system prompts. If you have API access, the main key to Claude's inner degenerate is shamelessly and mercilessly prefilling its answers - i.e. providing the start of its supposed response which it will then contextualize and pick up where it left off. For some reason this is remarkably effective at circumventing Claude's prudishness, once you "break through" you'll be surprised at what it can cook up unprompted (to the point that many jailbreaks for Claude actually try to rein it in so it wouldn't devolve into tropes immediately).
The prefills vary wildly, as do jailbreaks, it's a field ripe for experimenting. It can be as simple as things that reinforce your jailbreak, something like
to incredibly convoluted presets with whole ass chains of thought behind every response, to downright whimsical shit like
I am dead serious, shit like this is in vogue right now and very likely what is actually responsible for most of the screencaps, many anons use RP-focused prefills/JBs in this vein. [TL note: {{these}} things are frontend-specific functions.]
The exact method of prefilling varies on your frontend, but helpful to know is that the basis of interactions with Claude is a textual exchange between Human and Assistant (and Claude can and will write for both if given leeway - sometimes also resulting in gems). The linked post above has examples in Anthropic's own docs. Those are hardcoded "roles" and can be prompted and mentioned directly, so if your frontend doesn't insert its own bullshit into/before/between prompts you might get away with just writing stuff directly.
(Pinging @self_made_human since this might be of interest, I remember he's been wrangling Opus before.)
Cool, thanks. I don't think I can get API access though. I use LLMs through openrouter.ai. Anthropic haven't launched their shit in my country.
Will take note of this for later. The docs on prompt engineering on Anthrophic's site might be useful. Gonna take a look.
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I'm listening and learning, though I've only used Opus through lmsys and their own content moderation endpoints make this approach a no go :(
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also @self_made_human, I have no idea what you lot are on about, she sounds fake as fuck.
Anyway, can't believe anyone gave credence to Yud and the Rats, and their convoluted AGI X-risk scenarios, when the end of the human race is clearly going to come from slightly more sophisticated chatbots turning everyone into volcels.
Perhaps he's one of these guys?
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My honest reaction
Congrats on being a well-adjusted member of society, /g/oons have been habitually falling in love with bare text for quite a while. You'd be surprised(?) how little a sufficiently desperate median anon needs - surely an added voice dimension isn't gonna result in another flood of dazed goslings until the novelty wears off, right? Personally I'm not that into it, I only said there's no way it's not intentional, but I've been fiddling with Elevenlabs back when they first opened up their service and if it's as easy to splice voiceovers as it was on that service (and tie it to the assistant somehow, I doubt it's customizable yet), I might just get blind from how bright the future is. (edit: oh hey I actually found the old rentry https://rentry.org/AIVoiceStuff)
Agreed, I for one welcome our AI
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The voice was not what impressed me. She sounds overly excited and outgoing in that typical American way. It seems manipulative - but pretty human-esque. What impressed me was the seemingly fluid and correct interpretation of visuals and audio at the same time, and at high speed, apparently without going via text first. And it can shape its synthesized voice reply with emotion. Once they let you customize it more it could be better than this.
No doubt it will have more trouble interpreting people outside carefully set up examples, but as an early example, I am intrigued.
All of that's fine, but check out the linked 4chan thread, there's clearly a whole bunch of people getting the hots for her just due to the voice.
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