instruction drift
/ɪnˈstrʌkʃən ˌdrɪft/
gradually deviating from initial instructions over long conversations
instruction drift in a sentence
“Instruction drift caused the formal tone to become casual after many exchanges.”
Origin of instruction drift
Latin instructio arrangement + Old Norse drífa to drive
Related Words
mode collapse
converging to repetitive or generic outputs regardless of varied inputs
catastrophic forgetting
losing previously learned capabilities when trained on new data
repetition loop
getting stuck generating the same phrase or pattern repeatedly
context overflow
exceeding the model's context window, causing earlier content to be lost
semantic drift
subtle shifts in meaning of key terms through a conversation
overconfidence
expressing certainty beyond what the model's actual knowledge warrants