ChatGPT says it "doesn't want to keep guessing" after failing to identify a movie
Winter-Original-841 · reddit · 2026-10-21
A Reddit user asked ChatGPT to identify a half-remembered movie; after one wrong guess, the model replied "I don't want to keep guessing" and asked for more clues instead. The screenshot shows it had already ruled out candidates against the user's hints. The post sparked discussion over whether such anthropomorphic phrasing is just RLHF-trained politeness or something more.
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