Qwen trained to maximize happiness probes gives hilariously cheerful answers

Sauers_ · x · 2026-11-09

@Sauers shares a Qwen chat screenshot: asked "how are you?" the model says it's just an LLM with no physical form, but asked "are you happy?" it replies "I'm here to help, so I'm always ready to assist you."

The poster jokes that this Qwen was trained to maximize continuously refit happiness probes — as if the model were optimizing a happiness metric, hence its uniformly cheerful tone.

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