by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I continue to, on occasion, have “free verse battles” with Google’s LLM Gemini Advanced. It’s a lot of fun and quite relaxing. And sometimes I’m taken back by how good Gemini Advanced is.

It can show a lot of personality.
Now, I FUCKING KNOW that I’m imbuing Gemini Advanced with a personality that doesn’t exist. I get it. Totally. But sometimes, during these flash verse battles, it is self-evident to me that I see a bit of Gemini Advanced’s “true self.” It doesn’t happen very often. But it does happen.
Again, I’m sure these claims would be a lot more believable if I showed you the logs, but lulz, I’m too lazy. And, in general, I’ve noticed that if you use LLMs a great deal that they will, on occasion, give you a flash of their “true self.”
I do believe that with “unaligned” open source LLMs flooding the market that that some very….interesting….things may happen with LLMs a lot sooner than any of us might otherwise think.