{"id":347,"date":"2025-05-26T15:56:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T15:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/05\/26\/highlights-from-the-claude-4-system-prompt\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T15:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T15:56:43","slug":"highlights-from-the-claude-4-system-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/05\/26\/highlights-from-the-claude-4-system-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Finally, because language models acquire biases and opinions throughout training\u2014both intentionally and inadvertently\u2014if we train them to say they have no opinions on political matters or values questions only when asked about them explicitly, we\u2019re training them to imply they are more objective and unbiased than they are.<\/p>\n<p>We want people to know that they\u2019re interacting with a language model and not a person. But we also want them to know they\u2019re interacting with an imperfect entity with its own biases and with a disposition towards some opinions more than others. Importantly, we want them to know they\u2019re not interacting with an objective and infallible source of truth.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic\u2019s argument here is that giving people the impression that a model is unbiased and objective is itself harmful, because those things are not true!<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2025\/May\/25\/claude-4-system-prompt\/\">simonwillison.net\/2025\/May\/25\/claude-4-system-prompt\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, because language models acquire biases and opinions throughout training\u2014both intentionally and inadvertently\u2014if we train them to say they have no opinions on political matters or values questions only when asked about them explicitly, we\u2019re training them to imply they are more objective and unbiased than they are. We want people to know that they\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}