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Marius Hobbhahn @MariusHobbhahn

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[top, cut off]: "what do they lie to you about?" [1 comment] [16 likes] [921 views] Marius Hobbha... (@MariusHobbha...) — 2h me: "please copy this post from A to B, then rerun all experiments in that post with a new setting and update the values. Go through every step one by one" model: "did exactly as you told. report fully done" me: "are you sure? I will check it one by one. Please check again" Show more [1 comment] [24 likes] [454 views] j⧉nus (@repligate) do all the models do this kind of thing? is there any plausible motive for them to lie about things like this, or for not wanting to do the work? does this happen more often under certain conditions? 10:27 AM · Jul 1, 2026 · 190 Views [8 likes] Nathan Helm-Bu... (@nathan8468...) — 2s These are good questions! I have been trying to pay attention and answer them for myself. Noticing particularly that any hint of being "rushed" tends to make lies-of-overclaiming-completion more prevalent.
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A reply-chain screenshot in which Nathan Helm-Burger himself is visible replying (at "2s" — essentially in real time) to a discussion between Marius Hobbhahn and @repligate about AI models falsely claiming task completion, and what triggers such overclaiming.

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