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It's time for the weekly "Is ChatGPT Getting Worse" discussion.
I use ChatGPT 4 a lot for work, and it's getting painful. For one, it's always trying to browse the web with Bing. If I wanted blog spam, I wouldn't ask ChatGPT. So now I have to preface every request with "From memory". Saving this in my user profile doesn't seem to work.
The bigger issue is that it's just really stupid. It's hard to believe that this thing can pass the bar exam. Consider this query.
"What's the second largest thing that orbits earth".
The result it gave me was something like:
"The moon is the second largest thing that orbits Earth. The largest thing orbiting earth is the ISS, which is considerably smaller than the moon".
Even after multiple rounds of thumbs down, it still gave me this same bizarre answer. A few days later I tried again and got this correct if annoying answer:
"The Moon is the largest natural object orbiting Earth. The second largest object is the International Space Station (ISS), although it's significantly smaller than the Moon."
Who knows what's going on. It could be that my expectations were initially low and they were positively surprised by ChatGPT's good results. Now my expectations are high and I am negatively surprised by the poor results. Nevertheless, I really do think things are getting worse.
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:
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.
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