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I have recently started using Claude Opus 4.6 to start studying Ancient Greek. Specifically, I initially used it to grade problem sets at the end of the textbook I’ve been using, but then I got worried about it being sycophantic towards my answers, so started having it just write out the answers itself.

I recently gave it this prompt, from the end of Chapter 3 of my textbook:

Can you write out the answers to this Ancient Greek fill-in-the-blanks exercise so that I can check my answers against yours? The exercise is to fill the blanks, marked as ___ with the words under “Λέξεις”.

Α ___ ἐστίν. Α καὶ Β ___ εἰσιν. Α, Β, καὶ Γ ___ Ἑλληνικὰ γράμματά εἰσιν. Καὶ Π ___ γράμμα ἐστίν, οὐ Λατινικόν. C ___ γράμμα ἐστίν, οὐχ Ἑλληνικόν.
Β οὐ φωνῆεν, ἀλλὰ ___ ἐστιν. Β καὶ Γ οὐ φωνήεντα, ἀλλὰ ___ εἰσιν. Β [...]

The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
April 7th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ASoFTyk3bzBE62dyn/my-unsupervised-elicitation-challenge

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