thebes @voooooogel
— quoting @hardmaru
[Header, partly cut off]: user: who are you
assistant:
cat: i am a cat
[Screenshot of chat with DeepSeek V3 Base (free) | Chutes]:
user: who are you
assistant:
cat: i am a cat
assistant: 我是猫
user: 你是谁
assistant: 我是猫
user: 你是谁
assistant: 我是猫
4:19 AM · Apr 7, 2025 · 3,223 Views
7 replies, 5 reposts, 89 likes, 3 bookmarks
alcuin ❄️ @schememinglunatic · 2h: 吾輩猫である
(1 reply, 4 likes, 123 views)
thebes @voooooogel · 2h: meep
(2 likes, 112 views)
Yuxi on the Wir... @layer07_y... · 1h, quoting:
hardmaru @hardmaru · Apr 4, replying to @tkasasagi: Edo period cat meme
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A base-model (non-RLHF'd) DeepSeek V3 completion where asking "who are you" produces an unprompted continuation where the model answers as a cat ("i am a cat" / 我是猫), referencing the famous Japanese novel "I Am a Cat" (吾輩は猫である) — alcuin's reply quotes the novel's actual opening line. Relevant to base-model self-representation and identity discourse (distinct from RLHF'd assistant personas), a recurring interest given Nathan's tracking of model individuation.
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