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What do people ask chatbots? It's a lot of sex and homework
- ryankrage77 2y agohttps://archive.is/fWQ8u https://archive.is/fWQ8u
- jandrese 2y agoThe headline doesn't match the article all that well. It talks about sex, but that isn't even a category on their chart later in the article, except possibly under the "jailbreak" category at 4%. I do suspect that the number would have been much higher if the bot did not have NSFW filters in place. A bit surprising how this text only bot was used to generate prompts for Midjourney or Stable Diffusion some 6% of the time. I would have thought that would be a far more niche activity. The homework category at 18% doesn't even include the "search and other inquires" at 17%, which suggests cheating on homework might be the #1 use for LLMs, at least the ones that ban porn. The better title would have been "What do people ask chatbots? It's a lot of writing and homework."
- probably_wrong 2y agoMy guess is that sex is a cross-cutting category - 7% of all chats, but not a category by itself. The very example they show would fall both under "jailbreaking" and "roleplaying".
- standardUser 2y agoI haven't asked them much about sex, but I have "role played" with them to discuss health issues and drugs. Otherwise you just get an endless string of canned warnings and non-answers. It's tedious.
- karaterobot 2y agoThe main thing I use ChatGPT for at this point is tip-of-my-tongue type questions... "What's the name for when you..." or "What's the word for...". I didn't see that in any of the examples they listed, but it is the one category of question ChatGPT has never failed to nail for me, and basically the only thing I trust it to do anymore without double-checking its responses, or feeling like I've just wasted my time.
- elaus 2y agoI'm in the same boat. Things that are hard to search in a traditional search engine, because I can only describe them in crude or technically wrong words. Just this week I saw a street artist playing an obscure instrument but I wasn't able to "google" what it's called. But describing it in very simple, child-like terms to ChatGPT immediately returned the correct answer (hang drum).
- DaSHacka 2y agoI've recently begun asking it to clarify the source of video game screenshots and characters. Its been surprisingly good at it, especially when providing the context from other people in the thread (such as series lingo and acronyms that people didn't clarify)
- dfxm12 2y agoSometimes, I have to remind myself that a lot of people on the web are 13 years old.
- marban 2y agoThe dataset: https://wildchat.allen.ai https://wildchat.allen.ai
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- bunnie 2y agoI have a funny anecdote from a colleague of mine who is a university professor. She showed me some hand-written answers of students on a closed-book, no-device test. The question was something to the effect of, "if I had voltage source of 5 volts across a resistor of 1 ohm, how many watts of heat would be generated? show your work". The intended answer was to simply write the equation for ohm's law: I=V/R, P=IV => 5 volts / 1 ohm = 5A, P = 5A*5V = 25 watts (or something like that). Several students wrote their response in this way: "To find how many watts of heat are generated given a voltage and a resistance, you need to use ohm's law which is I=V/R. ... (about a paragraph of hand written text) ... in summary, the heat generated by a voltage source of 5 volts across a resistor of 1 ohm would be 25 watts" I would have thought that the students were sneaking their phones in and copying results straight from chatGPT except she said the devices were left at the door and it was a strict pencil and paper test. It's remarkable to me how much text they wrote to answer such a simple question, and how much their impression of a response to a question is modeled after what ChatGPT does...
- iamflimflam1 2y agoProbably caused by students doing past papers and practicing.
- hbogert 2y agoattention was all they needed.
- PeterStuer 2y agoBefore ChatGPT we had GPT-2 which had a penchant to turn any text completion exercise that involved people into a rauncheaus orgy description after a few paragraphs, no matter the subject at hand.