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OpenAI says it is investigating reports ChatGPT has become ‘lazy’::OpenAI says it is investigating complaints about ChatGPT having become “lazy”.

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[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 4 points 11 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@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago
[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


In recent days, more and more users of the latest version of ChatGPT – built on OpenAI’s GPT-4 model – have complained that the chatbot refuses to do as people ask, or that it does not seem interested in answering their queries.

If the person asks for a piece of code, for instance, it might just give a little information and then instruct users to fill in the rest.

In numerous Reddit threads and even posts on OpenAI’s own developer forums, users complained that the system had become less useful.

They also speculated that the change had been made intentionally by OpenAI so that ChatGPT was more efficient, and did not return long answers.

AI systems such as ChatGPT are notoriously costly for the companies that run them, and so giving detailed answers to questions can require considerable processing power and computing time.

OpenAI gave no indication of whether it was convinced by the complaints, and if it thought ChatGPT had changed the way it responded to queries.


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[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe because they’re trying to limit its poem poem poem recitation that causes it to dump its training material?

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 11 months ago

Nah, these complaints started at least a few months ago. The recursion thing is newer than that

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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Working smarter

[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 2 points 11 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.

[–] FelipeFelop@discuss.online 1 points 11 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.

[–] mx_smith@lemmy.world 1 points 11 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.

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