The recent chat bot advances have pretty much changed my life. I used to get anxiety by receiving mails and IMs, sometimes even from friends. I lost friendships over not replying. My main issue being that I am sometimes get completely stuck in a loop of how to formulate things in the best way to the point of just abandoning the contact. I went to therapy for that and it helped. But the LLM advancements of the recent years have been a game changer.
Now I plop everything into ChatGPT, cleaning out personal information as much as possible, and let the machine write. Often I’ll make some adjustments but just having a starting point has changed my life.
So, my answer, I use it all the fucking time.
Hey there! While I don’t use ChatGPT to generate full responses for me, I do find it super handy for refining my ideas and finding the right words. Sometimes I get stuck in the same loop of formulating things, and having ChatGPT as a creative companion helps me break through those mental roadblocks. I also use it to summarize and analyze others’ comments, making the process of crafting responses a lot smoother. It’s like having a linguistic sidekick! How about you? Do you have any specific ways you leverage the power of language models?
(This response was written for me by ChatGPT after I explained to it how I make use of it. I don’t think it got it quite right, but it wouldn’t be as funny if I edited it any, so there it is.)
I recognized this as ChatGPT, purely because of the enthusiastic greeting
I recognised it too but it wasn’t the greeting. Not sure what it was. Maybe the way it tends to droningly string points together. It’s also more verbose than humans.
And they also often start their text with copying your question
True. They remind me a bit of first- year undergraduate essays.
Which is likely because so many of those were in its training set.
Fortunately, it’s really easy to tell ChatGPT that you want it in a different style than that. It’s just that if you don’t specify a style (which I didn’t here do for comedic effect, and most people don’t because they don’t think to do so) it falls back to that base mediocrity. It doesn’t know you want a good essay unless you actually tell it that.
So those prompts with the string of “masterful award-winning genius essay that’ll move the reader to tears” superlatives actually do have something to them. One of the more amusing recent discoveries is that you can actually get ChatGPT to give better results if you add “if your answer is really good I’ll tip you $200.” to your prompt. It’s not actually interested in money, it just “knows” that paid-for results are better than freebies so you’re really just giving it guidance on what sort of answer you want from it.
@FaceDeer I wish the people who were using it to make websites knew this.
Too often in the past few weeks I’ve been looking for information and stumbled on sites that sound plausible for a couple of paragraphs and then degenerate into rambling, repetitive US undergraduate essays.
For me it was the leading questions at the end, LLMs often end with leading questions so that you have a way to continue the conversation from what I’ve found.