Fool Me Once, Shame on Who?
Five confident guesses, a bluff and a reality check
Okay so I was just playing around with my local model (Qwen3.8-Flash-Next) the other day, I mainly wanted to test the vision capabilities of the model. And the chat turned out to be more interesting than I expected, especially once you open the Thinking blocks. The model has no trouble identifying the separate features. It reads the glasses, the clasped hand, the white hair, and it is right about all of it. Naming the man is a different act. It names the wrong person five times anyway, and the fifth one is a bluff. That is the problem with these models, they hallucinate and they sound sure doing it, so if you are not very familiar with a topic and you do not verify your answers you will be led astray. There is a second reason to open the thinking blocks, the model spends part of them working out what I am feeling, once way off, deciding I am frustrated after four bad guesses, and once eerily right, in the block after I say there you go. The conversation ends with me making it reflect on its behavior, and it thanks me for that and encourages me to keep doing it. I tell it that it will not remember this tomorrow.