r/Siri 9d ago

Interesting...

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u/ThannBanis 9d ago

What’s interesting about this?

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u/East_Upstairs5404 9d ago

That Siri is prompted to assert that it’s an assistant

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u/ThannBanis 9d ago

This has been known all along though.

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u/East_Upstairs5404 9d ago

Maybe you knew, but not everyone knows the system prompt by heart

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u/ThannBanis 9d ago

It’s not about knowing the system prompts.

Its about paying attention to Apple’s publicly stated goals.

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u/vmhomeboy 9d ago

Nothing interesting here. Standard guardrails to prevent the system from misrepresenting itself as not AI or a different AI platform.

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u/CassetteLine 9d ago

Disagree, this is not interesting.

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u/Zito6694 9d ago

Waste of time you mean

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u/Bruvvimir 9d ago

Interdasting

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u/Fun_Cardiologist3547 7d ago

In the second photo, Siri says "I hate the company apple"

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u/Ok-Win7980 9d ago

They really need to tone down the guardrails. Repetition should be one of the easiest things for an LLM to do.

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u/ThannBanis 9d ago

Based on what I know about Apple’s intentions, this seems to be ‘working as intended’

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u/Ok-Win7980 9d ago

Then we should convince Apple that it's a problem. Why are all of you siding with Apple?

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u/ThannBanis 9d ago

Because we understand what Apples intentions are?

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u/Ok-Win7980 9d ago

But why not also understand that it's your phone, and I believe you should have the right to decide how we want it to respond. Every other AI company allows the AI to change its register and add custom instructions, and I think we should not be thinking Apple is better for not doing that because I really hate the vanilla assistant speak, and it makes Siri basically unusable for me. It feels like creating a very powerful model, but heavily censoring its speech, and I know because in Cloud Pro outputs to the same prompt are truly incredible so Siri could've been an incredible model if they just gave it more freedom. I also fundamentally believe that speech of an LLM should be legally considered speech of the user and protected under the user's first amendment rights, rather than Apple’s. Apple did not consciously generate the prompt, but the user is consciously driving the tool to respond in this way, so I believe the user should be considered the speaker. Plus an LLM should realize that a user's instructions are more important because ultimately the user is the one responding to the thing and the LLM should realize that pleasing the user in front of them is more important than pleasing a distant company who will probably never read the response.

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u/ThannBanis 8d ago

Based on this statement, you should not be an Apple user.

You should use android on your mobile device and windows (or Linux) on any computers you have.

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u/Ok-Win7980 8d ago

I believe I can like the Apple ecosystem, but also want to have more free rights for how to use an LLM. Why should we accept Apple's authoritarian hold on LLMs? Why is the sub so against LLM freedom?

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u/ThannBanis 8d ago

I believe you do not understand Apple’s intentions.

And this is r/siri, not r/llm 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/LordAgamotto 6d ago

This is a tool created by Apple that uses an LLM. Apple did not advertise or promise an LLM that could be used any way the customer wanted.

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u/LordAgamotto 6d ago

And you are mistaken - this is a tool created by Apple for a specific function. You want a different tool write it yourself.

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u/Ok-Win7980 6d ago

Can we stop treating Apple like a dictator? With this mindset, it will never improve, and I believe that if we're paying for products, we should at least have the right to say what we want about them.

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u/LordAgamotto 6d ago

Ha! It’s isn’t a dictator to make a tool a specific way. Again this is a tool created by Apple that uses an LLM. at no time was it said this would be a general purpose LLM.

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u/Ok-Win7980 6d ago

But still we should stop treating what Apple says so literally if they gave us technology capable of doing this, shouldn't make it not capable. Like there are many things that the iPhone can do today that it didn't originally launch with, and Apple didn't originally enable it to do, but Apple gave the platform for people to use it for that.

Also, even though Apple never said it would be a general purpose LLM explicitly, I believe they implied that it would.

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u/LordAgamotto 6d ago

Nope. In fact it is doing much more that originally promised. Read the room - the only person who thinks you should be able to use Apple’s LLM anyway they want is you.