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Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" (opper.ai)
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Screenshot of this question was making the rounds last week. But this article covers testing against all the well-known models out there.

Also includes outtakes on the 'reasoning' models.

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[โ€“] Womble@piefed.world 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Torture can be a useful way of extracting information if you have a way to instantly verify it, which actually makes it a good analogy to LLMs. If I want to know the password to your laptop and torture you until you give me the correct password and I log in then that works.

[โ€“] snooggums@piefed.world 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

If you can instantly verify it then you don't need the torture.

Getting the person to volunteer the information is proven to be far, far more successful and being able to instantly verofy means you know when you have the answers.