I have a theory that it should have a very different "personality" (probably more like writing style) depending on language because it's an entirely different set of training data
In English chatGPT is rather academic and has a recognisable style of writing, if you've used it a bit you can usually get hints something was written by it just by reading it.
Does it speak in a similar tone, with similar mannerisms in other languages? (where possible, obviously some things don't translate)
I don't know a second language well enough to have natural conversation so I'm unable to test this myself, and may have worded things awkwardly from a lack of understanding
If you ask ChatGPT to communicate to you in a different writing style it can do a decent job of doing so. It will also respect requests to decrease verbosity and formality. The default writing style is some kind of specific configuration they have made for it, it’s not a fundamental characteristic of it.
This makes me wonder if they've written that configuration for every language though, or if the English instructions work on other languages
I wonder if you could tell it to write like Shakespeare or something in English, then have a chat with it in Spanish and have that persist
My guess would be that it wouldn't transfer, otherwise it'd need to have some understanding of the words beyond just language
Yeah iirc it's been confirmed that the brainwashing/muzzling don't extend as much to other languages. It's a bit easier to get it to talk about spicy topics in Russian in my experience
It doesn't in french but it struggles with the use of the polite version of "you" against the friendly "you"
Yes, 100%. Try it in Toki Pona or Toki Ma, it's very eyecatching.
I can't tell apart the quality or "flavour" in English from Spanish. Spanish is my first language though, if that tells you anything. IMO the performance in those two languages is the same, with the caveat that I have used it only for generic purposes (writing resumes, rephrasing stuff)
If you give it instructions in English, then switch to Spanish does it continue to follow them in Spanish?
(As in if you ask it to play the character of John the cheese merchant then ask it what its name is in Spanish, does it respond in Spanish with the correct name?)
I haven't tried language switcheroo with storytelling but for other topics I have and I didn't notice a difference. It still follows the instructions.
