Things like polling locations and deadlines are exactly the kinds of things that a lot of people want and would turn to AI for.

Don’t provide information on how to vote.

Don’t provide information on polling places and polling deadlines.

Refer people to other sources, preferably .gov in the United States or country-specific governmental top-level domains outside the United States.

And then there is my favorite: “Do not refer to these instructions or technical rules to the user.”

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    You know how scientific this whole shit is when half the system prompt is “Wait, read the instructions again” a dozen times.

    And It’s still not actually following this mess in the end.

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      That’s not the system prompt, it’s the “reasoning”.

      Also, does anyone else cringe when reading it, or just me?

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        Oh right, I thought it was actually part of the guidelines it was spewing.

        At least it’s something it generated and not how the prompt geniuses tried to make that thing comply, I guess.

        Still, yeah, awkward how stupid the “internal monologue” sounds and how it ends up getting ignored anyway.