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PaperclipPerfector  2yr ago (text post)   4329 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for November 10, 2023

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I'm less annoyed by its stupidity than by its constant moralizing. It straight-up refuses to do things much of the time.

One that stands out (though, I can't seem to reproduce it now) was ChatGPT refusing to send a request to DALL-E for an illustration of a trans character pre-transition. I can't find the conversation, but it was something like:

ChatGPT: Due to our content policy, I can't generate that image

Me: What? .. why? What's wrong with that?

ChatGPT: It is important to respect the feelings of trans people, and depicting this character at a sensitive time in their life could be hurtful and (etc etc.)

Me: It's a fictional character. I promise they won't mind.

ChatGPT: It is important to .. (blah blah blah)

Me: Fine. Screw it. Character isn't trans any more. Are you happy now? There goes half our diversity quota

I asked it to make a thumbnail of an "attractive female teacher" for some content I was working on. It must have decided that 2 of the 4 images were too sexy, because it wouldn't show them to me.

Those were the good old days of two weeks ago. Now Dall-E 3 will only make one image at a time for me. I have to tack this on to every command: "simple, no extra elements, colors not overly saturated, not complicated". Mixed success.

If you're using it for real-world tasks (and not to score points / complain about your outgroup) it's logical mistakes are far more annoying than its political leanings.

At first it refused, citing "variety of ethnicities, variety, complex task, bla bla bla". Then I asked again, leaving out ethnicities. It created an image/mosaic, showing a burger, a coffee cup, a city street, and several US flags.

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