Can LLMs have an "accent" like second language speakers?
I'm not sure how to best characterize what I just experienced with Opus 5 but my attempt to describe it, and hopefully this doesn't offend anyone, is that it "spoke" with an "accent" to me.
By speaking I don't mean voice mode, but it wrote the following and I will omit for brevity:
"... stuff ... dry-run ... more stuff"
"... 死run ... stuff"
I had to lookup what 死 was because I don't speak chinese, and I found it means "die" and I thought it was too weird of a coincidence because in foreigners accent I have heard "dry" sound like "die" before.
Am I crazy? Who wants to take a crack at this I get strange little bugs like this all the time. I don't think it's an accent, just a bug. Can you share some of yours? My calling of it an “accent” was more on the lines of this perhaps being a feature of language and how it’s encoded in latent spaces, I wonder if “fixing it” is not necessarily helpful in terms of knowledge representation. Not sure I’m making any sense tbh, philosophizing here Sometimes it will make the title of a conversation in a random language (like Spanish) even though it has nothing to do with the language. Other times it just adds random Chinese or Russian characters. interesting...some models are claiming accent either input or output i've noticed.