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I haven't had a chance to use the GPT-4 API yet - is it that much better than the GPT-4 available via ChatGPT? Or am I misunderstanding?
by nmfisher 3y ago
I haven't had a chance to use the GPT-4 API yet - is it that much better than the GPT-4 available via ChatGPT? Or am I misunderstanding?
- freedomben 3y agoChatGPT uses the GPT-4 API, so it's the same. With the API directly though you can change the system prompt, which can enable better results if you know what you're doing.
- bazmattaz 3y agoChatGPT uses the GPT-4, but there are conspiracy theories circling that ChatGPT is neutered and thus not as good as GPT-4 through the API. The theory being that OpenAI are thottling the free version of GPT-4 (ChatGPT)
- bestcoder69 3y agoFree ChatGPT runs 3.5. You have to upgrade to plus to use GPT-4. The APIs seem close to ChatGPT, but it’s a little opaque what they’re actually doing. If you inspect network requests the models are named something like “chat-render-3.5” instead of the API model names. I’d imagine OpenAI might run experiments on ChatGPT that they wouldn’t on the API, to avoid breaking 3rd party applications unannounced.
- cosmojg 3y agoThat's, uh, not a conspiracy theory. The free version of ChatGPT uses an entirely different model on the backend.
- zo1 3y agoI use the GPT4 API and still think it got neutered since I first started using it.
- Fergusonb 3y agoAnecdotal evidence here - I find that the API is less likely to ask questions about what you are doing and get straight to the answer. For example, if I were to ask how to do something with burp it will just answer instead of going into the "as an AI" monologue.
- bkanber 3y agoChatGPT is a wrapper to the GPT Completion API with some sane defaults. With a new beta feature you can edit the system prompt via ChatGPT, but you still can't adjust the other parameters you can reach with the API.