If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic

Aware that AI models exhibit different values in different languages, Anthropic researchers have taken steps to map out how Claude expresses itself in different languages. The results identify four key axes that capture 15 percent of the variation in the values Anthropic says Claude expresses across different languages: …

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

speak Dutch if you want .... an honest appraisal of potential shortcomings

And they say we will never have human-level AI

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Re: speak Dutch if you want .... an honest appraisal of potential shortcomings

Would there be a noticable difference in the way Grok responds to Afrikaans, compared to other languages?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: speak Dutch if you want .... an honest appraisal of potential shortcomings

I don't think it's black and white on that

[Bebu sa Ware]

Re: speak Dutch if you want .... an honest appraisal of potential shortcomings

> Would there be a noticable difference in the way Grok responds to Afrikaans

The "roman" salute might be a giveaway.

I cannot imagine any extreme Afrikaner Nationalist redneck consulting anyone let alone Claude, ChatGPT… well perhaps Grok.

[Arkitekt]

Thats not racist at all.

[Anonymous Coward]

That's not grammatical at all.

[Phil O'Sophical]

Since all AI does in response to a query is to parrot the information it has already absorbed, the fact that English responses may be less deferential than, say, Hindi ones surely just reflects the fact that most English-language text on the web comes from Americans, people not noted for their tactful and deferential speech styles?

[graemep]

I wonder if it responds differently when using different forms of English. Claude does use British English in responses to me. What else would change if I used American or South Asian English?

[Fruit and Nutcase]

South Asian English?

A frequent term that I come across is "revert" - as used by offshore Indian colleagues to mean "will get back to you with an answer", whereas in everyday UK/US use, it means to "return to an earlier state".

And then there's the mixing up of present/past tense

[aingsword]

Interesting that they consider Candor the opposite of Execution

[Bebu sa Ware]

Anthropic's history of leaning into anthropomorphism for marketing purposes.

Nominal determinism aside — they would, wouldn't they ?

I would estimate that 80% of the Anglosphere wouldn't have the attention span to read into short term memory any word of more than ten letters so "anthropomorphism" doesn't even make it off the blocks and for most of those that it does, their lamentable lack of a classical education means they likely haven't a clue as to the word's meaning.

Taking the piss (mostly.)

_{I was rereading Dorothy L Sayer's The Lost Tools of Learning (1948.) After 75 years, still makes one think and think that she still has some valid points.}

[graemep]

Re: Anthropic's history of leaning into anthropomorphism for marketing purposes.

Thanks, going tor read that. Sayers usually has valid points about most things!