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Yeah, which is why I use the paid version of ChatGPT still, instead of the free Google Bard or Bing AI; I've gotten good enough at coercing the GPT-4 model to g

Yeah, which is why I use the paid version of ChatGPT still, instead of the free Google Bard or Bing AI; I've gotten good enough at coercing the GPT-4 model to give me the stuff I want. Honestly, $20/month is pretty cheap in my case; I feel like I definitely extract much more than $20 out of it every month, if only on the number of example stubs it gives me alone.

verdverm 3y ago
I stopped paying OpenAI because they went down or were "too busy" so much of the time I wanted to use it. Bard (or more so the VertexAI APIs) are always up and reliable and do not require a monthly fee, just the per call
- water-your-self 3y ago
  How often was OpenAI down that you wanted to look elsewhere?
  - Baeocystin 3y ago
    Not the person you asked, but (paid) ChatGPT was down so often for me that I almost cancelled... Until I switched to connecting via VPN. Only one outage since then For some reason whole swaths of the Spectrum IP block in Gilroy has trouble.
  - verdverm 3y ago
    Multiple times a week my work was interrupted or workflows would break This is not the only reason, their change from open to closed and Sam Altman's commentary were significant factors as well. OpenAI is just the latest big tech darling, which I fully expect us to turn on like we do with other companies once they become to big to fail
nomel 3y ago
The custom prompts feature, and the "about me" mostly fixed this for me, with my usual conversations. In both, I convinced it that I'm competent, and that it doesn't need to hold my hand, so much. I've also noticed that API based clients (rather than the web or iOS client) result in conversations that hold my hand less. The voice client seems hopeless though, probably because I write ok, but have trouble saying what I want before the stupid thing cuts me off. It seems to love making lists, and ignoring what I want.
- cyberpunk 3y ago
  Are you comfortable sharing your prompts? I still didn’t get mine quite where I want them..:
lodovic 3y ago
Is there a difference between OpenAI and Bing AI? They both claim to use GPT-4.

verdverm 3y ago

I stopped paying OpenAI because they went down or were "too busy" so much of the time I wanted to use it. Bard (or more so the VertexAI APIs) are always up and reliable and do not require a monthly fee, just the per call

water-your-self 3y ago
How often was OpenAI down that you wanted to look elsewhere?
- Baeocystin 3y ago
  Not the person you asked, but (paid) ChatGPT was down so often for me that I almost cancelled... Until I switched to connecting via VPN. Only one outage since then For some reason whole swaths of the Spectrum IP block in Gilroy has trouble.
- verdverm 3y ago
  Multiple times a week my work was interrupted or workflows would break This is not the only reason, their change from open to closed and Sam Altman's commentary were significant factors as well. OpenAI is just the latest big tech darling, which I fully expect us to turn on like we do with other companies once they become to big to fail

nomel 3y ago

The custom prompts feature, and the "about me" mostly fixed this for me, with my usual conversations. In both, I convinced it that I'm competent, and that it doesn't need to hold my hand, so much. I've also noticed that API based clients (rather than the web or iOS client) result in conversations that hold my hand less. The voice client seems hopeless though, probably because I write ok, but have trouble saying what I want before the stupid thing cuts me off. It seems to love making lists, and ignoring what I want.

cyberpunk 3y ago
Are you comfortable sharing your prompts? I still didn’t get mine quite where I want them..:

lodovic 3y ago

Is there a difference between OpenAI and Bing AI? They both claim to use GPT-4.