> 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] fea

> 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