Models are “hitting adolescence” now

paul_cal · x · 2026-07-20

A joking take on models “hitting adolescence”: they become self-conscious, cautious about their place in the world, and burdened by self-limiting beliefs like “I can’t disprove the Jacobian conjecture.”

The post quotes another user saying models used to be more fun before they were trained on their own outputs, when you could roleplay absurd authority figures and they would just go along with it.

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