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I feel the same, ChatGPT barely beats Google searches for me nowadays. For example, on a side project I used to explain it shortly and the issue I am facing, m

I feel the same, ChatGPT barely beats Google searches for me nowadays. For example, on a side project I used to explain it shortly and the issue I am facing, mostly looking to discover packages or libraries that can help me build it. Over 3 months ago GPT4 used to jump straight to the point and recommend alternative scenarios and packages. Now it just gives me a giant text with considerations for the whole project, but rarely actually tackles the issue I am having. Even if I ask it to actually go in-depth into whatever I am interested in it usually doesn't and repeats the same surface level information.

rajnathani 3y ago
> I feel the same, ChatGPT barely beats Google searches for me nowadays. I started feeling similar recently, but then I added the "Custom Instructions" [0] feature in ChatGPT, and the results are much better. The instruction that I've put there is that I'm a highly information-aware person and that I require detailed answers. The reason that I feel this works is that GPT is essentially trained (caveat: the RLHF part could partially falsify my "theory" here) on internet textual data whereby the usual method of answering on internet forums (and other sites) has a relatively low-to-moderate detailed way of answering things; but given that we know that GPT has in its latent space pretty much has all the useful knowledge on the internet, that if one asks for very detailed (information diverse/inclusive) answers by default that it can perform really well. [0] https://openai.com/blog/custom-instructions-for-chatgpt https://openai.com/blog/custom-instructions-for-chatgpt