I see the same thing with Q8.

I get the same messages in a MLX Q8 quant - I assumed it was reacting to the harness, but it doesn't seem to cause issues.

I've experienced the same, IIRC also using NVIDIA's NVFP4 quant. Also just decided to ignore because it didn't seem to cause any real issues. I figure it might be a training thing, since the hallucinated user messages seem to occur immediately after tool calls or when it's checking its work.

This was dead. Not sure why, but vouched, it's relevant.

They claim it applies to EU citizens when both they and the service are outside the EU as well.

No they don’t. The GDPR is location scoped so the data of an EU citizen given to an hotel while on vacation in the US isn’t protected by GDPR but the data of an US citizen giving their data to a hotel in the EU while on vacation is.

That is my understanding as well. Not a lawyer but recently looked into it since we have US, EU, and non-EU European employees and we were looking at token usage tracking tools (which would appear to potentially fall under employee surveillance or at the very least require explicit consent)

Not sure the exact legalese but legal put together a consent form for anyone wanting to do the PoC

To be clear, I find the claim that the models are sentient and have feelings to be preposterous, but I feel like the key takeaway is:

> It doesn't actually matter to you if they have feelings, because you will still get demonstrably better results across the board if you treat them as if they do.

However, personally, my main reason for that mode of interaction is that I interact with a lot of humans via text, and I do not want to habituate myself to being an asshole when the medium is words on a screen (or otherwise).

Same.

I try to keep my AI sessions professional and friendly, because that will help ME maintain a positive and productive atmosphere.