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I finally got my AI to stop generating gibberish by adding a single line of code to the prompt.
After my model kept outputting nonsense for a project in Austin, I added 'Respond in complete, grammatical sentences.' and the quality jumped immediately, so has anyone found a better fix for this?
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val2231mo ago
And that's the thing that gets me about troyp37's point, isn't it? You're basically admitting the model has a fundamental flaw if a basic grammar reminder is what saves it from going off the rails. I've seen this same issue with some of the bigger models that folks are running down here in Austin, and while the quick fix works for simple tasks, it's a ticking time bomb for anything that requires a real train of thought. What happens when you ask it to reason through a multi-step process like debugging a network protocol or analyzing a legal contract, and it still starts spouting nonsense after a few dozen lines? The model just doesn't know how to hold a coherent structure on its own, so jamming in that grammar rule is like putting a new roof on a house with rotten foundation beams. Have you tested it on something that requires more than basic sentence structure, like following a complex set of instructions or generating a report with specific formatting and logic?
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troyp373mo ago
Isn't that just putting a band-aid on a broken system? If your model needs a basic grammar reminder to function, the training data or the model's core setup is probably flawed. You're just hiding the symptom instead of fixing the real problem, which could be bad data or wrong settings. That quick fix might fail in more complex situations where the AI needs to follow deeper logic, not just sentence rules. It's better to find and solve the root cause for reliable results.
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