The dumbest people I know have been being told a large portion of their dumbest thoughts, and ideas, are correct for 30-79 years now.
Recently had a smart friend says something like “gemini told me so”, I have to say I lost some respect ;p
My kid, the other day
Let’s play chess, I’ll play white
Alright, make your first move
Qe7# I win
Ahh, you got me!
It was harmless but I expected ChatGPT to at least acknowledge this isn’t how any of this works
Hey, just because you are dumb, doesn’t mean you can’t be absolutely right, sometimes.
You’re absolutely right!
Nope, the dumbest people I know have no idea how to find plain ChatGPT. They can get to Gemni, but can only imagine asking it questions.
True. Southpark had a great episode on chatgpt recently. “She is kissing your ass!”.
Insert that guy replacing his table salt with bromide salt.
South Park nailed this with ChatGPT encouraging Randy to turn Tegridy into Techridy, “An AI powered marijuana platform for global solutions”.
Fuck me that is so perfectly on the nose
You’re absolutely right!
I couldn’t agree more!
You can tell if to switch that off permanently with custom instructions. It makes the thing a whole lot easier to deal with. Of course, that would be bad for engagement so they’re not going to do that by default.
You can, but in my experience it is resistant to custom instructions.
I spent an evening messing around with ChatGPT once, and fairly early on I gave it special instructions via the options menu to stop being sycophantic, among other things. It ignored those instructions for the next dozen or so prompts, even though I followed up every response with a reminder. It finally came around after a few more prompts, by which point I was bored of it, and feeling a bit guilty over the acres of rainforest I had already burned down.
I don’t discount user error on my part, particularly that I may have asked too much at once, as I wanted it to dramatically alter its output with so my customizations. But it’s still a computer, and I don’t think it was unreasonable to expect it to follow instructions the first time. Isn’t that what computers are supposed to be known for, unfailingly following instructions?
I sometimes use ChatGPT when I’m stuck troubleshooting an issue. I had to do exactly this because it became extremely annoying when I corrected it for giving me incorrect information and it would still be “sucking up” to me with “Nice catch!” and “You’re absolutely right!”. The fact that an average person doesn’t find that creepy, unflattering and/or annoying is the real scary part.
Give me a prompt and do not include cooking recipes of any kind
Automated confirmation bias
Fuck thats terrifying
Joe Rogan? He has got his posse of yes-sayers, he needs no ChatGPT for that
George Carlin is turning in his grave
Nah, he didn’t expect anything better than this.
That’s one of my favourite quotes. It’s so true
Did you hack my chat history?
It’s just how the current chat model works… it basically agrees and makes you feel good… its really annoying
