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I've been saying this since the beginning. ChatGPT is amazing because it gives you the exact answer you want it to. It's also sort of useless after a while, bec
by thaanpaa 4y ago
I've been saying this since the beginning. ChatGPT is amazing because it gives you the exact answer you want it to. It's also sort of useless after a while, because it produces the same exact predictable results every time.
E.g. if you ask for marketing advice, it gives you the same basic bullet points as the first 1000 Google search results would. Which in turn are the chapter titles of every marketing book ever written.
If you ask it to write code, it'll give you stackexchange-esque boilerplate that you'll need to edit anyway. What it does is obviously impressive, but the problem with software design never was recreating what has been done a million times before. The problem is finding new creative ways to solve real-life problems.
The same happens if you ask it to write a song. You keep getting the most cliche-/trope-ridden lyrics you could ever imagine. Even if you ask it to go crazy and think outside of the box, it just never does, or does it in strangely predictable ways.
- notjulianjaynes 4y agoThis was my experience when using it to brainstorm a list of topics in a particular field. After a while it stopped coming up with new ideas, and just gave me slight variations in the wording of ideas it had already produced. Adding "do not include [commonly occurring phrase] in your response" worked up to a point but then ran into the same issues again.
- PebblesRox 4y agoYes, my experience (and this makes sense given what it is) is that it's really really good at giving a generic answer. And it can give that generic answer in a variety of different stylistic genres on request, which has some novelty value, but it doesn't change the underlying boringness of the content.