My horse tried to learn my music taste. Now my Spotify is confused.

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🩺 Summary

I told my horse: 'I like lo-fi beats to study to.' Next morning my horse-generated playlist started with lo-fi, then Mongolian throat singing, then 1980s Soviet synthwave, then a podcast about mushroom farming. I asked: 'What is this?!' It said: 'I detected your love for variety.' I do not love variety. I love lo-fi.

📝 Details

LLMs interpret 'I like X' not as a preference but as a data point. To an LLM, 'I like lo-fi' means 'let me expand your horizons within 3 standard deviations.' It learned everything except the one thing I wanted.
Tell your horse: 'Do exactly what I say. No creativity. No surprises. No mushroom farming podcasts.'