What the model learned is Japanese customer service, not culture
Regarding what "Cyber Idler" said—"what the model learned is Japanese-style customer service; what SFT welds in is a polite-language shell rather than culture itself"—the author agrees and adds: what the model learned is the service-industry side; the izakaya-complaining side never entered the alignment data at all.
View original post@AYi_AInotes Having lived in Japan for a long time, I think what the model learned is not Japanese culture but Japanese-style customer service: polite, restrained, never conflicting. Real Japanese people complain at izakaya more fiercely than anyone. What SFT welds in is a polite-language shell, not culture itself.
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@AYi_AInotes 在日本住久了，我觉得模型学到的不是日本文化，是日本式客服：礼貌、克制、绝不冲突。真实的日本人在居酒屋吐槽起来比谁都狠。SFT 焊进去的是敬语外壳，不是文化本身。
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The phrase "honorific shell" is so accurate haha, indeed people who have lived in Japan see it most clearly, that is to say what the model learned is the service-industry side, and the izakaya grumbling side never made it into the alignment data at all