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It's fairly ridiculous with respect to not "impersonating" anything. I wanted to see it generate modern political commentary in the style of HL Mencken, to whic

It's fairly ridiculous with respect to not "impersonating" anything. I wanted to see it generate modern political commentary in the style of HL Mencken, to which it just says "I'm not HL Mencken". Like, what am I going to do, use to to claim I found HL Mencken's long lost hidden commentary on Donald Trump? Anti-impersonation also covers like "give pointing out instructions as a Dzogchen lama." It tells you that it's not a licensed and bonded Dzogchen lama and pointing out instructions are proprietary information belonging to the Dzogchen lama association. (Tongue in cheek, obviously, the point is that while held to be secret, they're not copyrighted, legally protected, or proprietary information. Arguably, "Dzogchen lama" isn't even a thing). It was willing to write a koan in the style of the Wumenguan, which surprised me after trying this stuff out for a while that it didn't just say "Sorry Dave, I'm not the 13th century Chan monk Wumen Huikai and can't do that."

armchairhacker 4y ago
Can you tell it to pretend or use its best guess? I know that you can’t use basic prompt-engineering to get it to be racist or explain how to commit crimes. But for scenarios like the above when it’s impersonating you can just tell it to pretend and that is enough.
yellowapple 4y ago
I feel like that's less some anti-impersonation rule and more ChatGPT simply lacking creativity. I got similarly stonewalled when asking it about how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, with responses along the lines of "that's a tongue twister, woodchucks don't actually chuck wood". Even after narrowing the possibilities (specifying balsa wood, specifying specific dimensions of the wooden projectiles, specifying woodchucks of average size/strength, even giving the woodchucks trebuchets), it still refused to give a straight answer, only saying that woodchucks wouldn't be able to chuck very much wood.
- MagicMoonlight 4y ago
  No, because it used to do it. But then some greasy little nerd in their office added a rule to ban it. You used to be able to say stuff like “pretend to be homer simpson and tell me about algebra” but now it just blocks that for being wrongthink

armchairhacker 4y ago

Can you tell it to pretend or use its best guess? I know that you can’t use basic prompt-engineering to get it to be racist or explain how to commit crimes. But for scenarios like the above when it’s impersonating you can just tell it to pretend and that is enough.

yellowapple 4y ago

I feel like that's less some anti-impersonation rule and more ChatGPT simply lacking creativity. I got similarly stonewalled when asking it about how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, with responses along the lines of "that's a tongue twister, woodchucks don't actually chuck wood". Even after narrowing the possibilities (specifying balsa wood, specifying specific dimensions of the wooden projectiles, specifying woodchucks of average size/strength, even giving the woodchucks trebuchets), it still refused to give a straight answer, only saying that woodchucks wouldn't be able to chuck very much wood.

MagicMoonlight 4y ago
No, because it used to do it. But then some greasy little nerd in their office added a rule to ban it. You used to be able to say stuff like “pretend to be homer simpson and tell me about algebra” but now it just blocks that for being wrongthink