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In the pirate example, inoculation prompting can explicitly tell the model it is a pirate, reducing the need for the model to learn a pirate persona to explain the data.

Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sept 2026

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“you know, try and sort of put back the information that's necessary. So to go back to the pirate example again,”
“you might say like, you know, if you're trying to inoculation problem in this or trying to kind of explain this way that you put in the prompt like you are a pirate and now there's nothing to explain like the,”
“put the radiator next to the thermostat again and the model's like, I'm a pirate.”
“I don't need to explain this sort of residual anomaly in the data.”
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