AI is less likely to launch a nuclear strike when it reasons in Japanese

So nobody's bothered by the fact that five out of nine models went nuke in 100% of cases regardless of the language?..

Ahhh, but does that change when the target of the nuclear strike is Godzilla?

If a kaiju shows up in the prompt, the weights will immediately drift from game theory into fiction. And by the laws of the genre, the military is obligated to drop a nuke on it - just to make the monster even angrier so it goes and trashes Tokyo

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Cloudef 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I chuckled, but isnt godzilla product of the nuclear aftermatch?

	▲	Terr_ 12 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes, and on multiple levels of meaning too. I think it could go either way depending on how genre-savvy the character is, in the story-document being emitted by the LLM. For example, perhaps the Kaiju-flavored narrative demands that Military Bigwig dismisses Concerned Scientists' desperate pleas, and empowers the monster by attacking it with a nuclear weapon. Not because it's a strategically (in)correct choice, but because it "fits" with a story trying to make its subtext clear.
	▲	washadjeffmad 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		True. In the West, nuclear radiation creates super heroes, while in Japan, it produces devastating kaiju. I wonder what accounts for the difference?