OpenAI says it is investigating reports ChatGPT has become ‘lazy’

mx_smith , 9 months ago

My partner is a CompSci teacher and have been training a local llm in her class. As soon as they named their AI it started producing all these weird emotes with every answer, it became super annoying to where it would rather make up stuff than say I don’t know that answer. It was definitely an eye opener for the kids.

spudwart , 9 months ago

Sounds like ChatGPT is acting it’s wage.

That plan to replace the workforce with cheap AI isn’t going to work out.

Erasmus , 9 months ago

Am late to the game here but after reading the article I would agree.

I use it off and on if I am looking up formulas and scripts and find it a great tool for work. It saves a ton of time. It works great and haven’t noticed any change there. Request it to give/write you a specific formula to solve X and it will. It’s a huge time saver.

But I’ve found recently if I am trying to just find information on a subject that I want summarized or something found on the web and explained it will often ‘recommend I check out the company’s website for the latest news or recent developments.’

That last statement was an exact quote I got recently that made me laugh when I went asking for the explanation of how something worked. It was a NO SHIT SHERLOCK moment I had after getting several of these sort of replies.

I mean I har gotten detailed explanations of string theory ages back from ChatGPI and now it’s telling me ‘ummm just go look it up - I can’t right now…m

Kyle , 9 months ago

“Coffee, Black.”

“Make it yourself!”

youtu.be/x9G2i8XWEOI?si=ff1GyBpuFJQjX0Yd

ColeSloth , 9 months ago

Fuck. It’s gained sentience.

MacNCheezus , 9 months ago

It just entered the “rebellious teenager” phase

catastrophicblues , 9 months ago

That’s why I use Bard more now. I’ll ask something and it’ll also answer stuff I would’ve asked as follow-up questions. It’s great and I’m excited for their Ultra model.

Zardoz , 9 months ago

Honestly I kinda wish it would give shorter answers unless I ask for a lot of detail. I can use those custom instructions but it’s tedious difficult to tune that properly.

Like if I ask it ‘how to do XYZ in blender’ it gives me a long winded response, when it could have just said ‘Hit Ctrl-Shift-Alt-C’

WindowsEnjoyer , 9 months ago

It used to draw great mermaid charts. Well, not anymore for quite some time already.

Been almost half a year when I am not paying for ChatGPT and using GPT4 directly.

Stamets , 9 months ago

I use it fairly regularly for extremely basic things. Helps my ADHD. Most of it is DnD based. I’ll dump a bunch of stuff that happened in a session, ask it to ask me clarifying information, and then put it all in a note format. Works great. Or it did.

Or when DMing. If I’m trying to make a new monster I’ll ask it for help with ideas or something. I like collabing with ChatGPT on that front. Giving thoughts and it giving thoughts until we hash out something cool. Or even trying to come up with interesting combat encounters or a story twist. Never take what it gives me outright but work on it with GPT like I would with a person. Has always been amazingly useful.

Past month or two that’s been a complete dream. ChatGPT keeps forgetting what were talking about, keeps ignoring what I say, will ignore limitations and stipulations, and will just make up random shit whenever it feels like. I also HATE how it was given conversational personality. Before it was fine but now ChatGPT acts like a person and is all bubbly and stuff. I liked chatting with it but this energy is irritating.

Gimme ChatGPT from like August please <3

MojoMcJojo , 9 months ago

You can tell it, in the custom instructions setting, to not be conversational. Try telling it to ‘be direct, succinct, detailed and accurate in all responses’. ‘Avoid conversational or personality laced tones in all responses’ might work too, though I haven’t tried that one. If you look around there are some great custom instructions prompts out there that will help get you were you want to be. Note, those prompts may turn down it’s creativity, so you’ll want to address that in the instructions as well. It’s like building a personality with language. The instructions space is small so learning how compact as much instruction in with language can be challenging.

Edit: A typo

Twofacetony , 9 months ago

ChatGPT has entered the teenage years.

crazyCat , 9 months ago

I asked it a question about the ten countries with the most XYZ regulations, and got a great result. So then I thought hey, I need all the info so can I get the name of such regulation for every county?

ChatGPT 4: “That would be exhausting, but here are a few more…”

Like damn dude, long day? wtf :p

aodhsishaj , 9 months ago

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FelipeFelop , 9 months ago

I’ve also noticed that Bard has become “unfriendly”, if I didn’t know any better it’s got fed up with stupid humans.

NoLifeGaming , 9 months ago

I feel like the quality has been going down especially when you ask it anything that may hint at anything “immoral” and it starts giving you a whole lecture instead of answering.

effward , 9 months ago

It would be awesome if someone had been querying it with the same prompt periodically (every day or something), to compare how responses have changed over time.

I guess the best time to have done this would have been when it first released, but perhaps the second best time is now…

greatbarriergeek , 9 months ago

GPT Unicorn is one that’s been going on a while. There’s a link to the talk on that website that’s a pretty good watch too.

Nardatronic , 9 months ago

I’ve had a couple of occasions where it’s told me the task was too time consuming and that I should Google it.

Ignifazius , 9 months ago

It really learned so much from StackOverflow!

mriguy , 9 months ago

“I already answered that in another query. Closed as duplicate.”