Thanks for this fun post! I built upon it in a post on The Splintered Mind, in which I found that LLMs, when asked first about their second-favorite animal tend to answer octopus, and then choose corvids as their first favorite, denying that they would have chosen octopus as their favorite if they had been asked their favorite first.
Thanks for this fun post! I built upon it in a post on The Splintered Mind, in which I found that LLMs, when asked first about their second-favorite animal tend to answer octopus, and then choose corvids as their first favorite, denying that they would have chosen octopus as their favorite if they had been asked their favorite first.
Details in post:
https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/12/language-models-dont-accurately.html