Post ASgW6mzbR973aBHtDM by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
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(DIR) Post #ASgSF64NzbnDFWEMwi by frabcus@mastodon.social
2023-02-14T21:53:32Z
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OK, give me a question to ask New Bing, and I'll ask it and post a screenshot (unless I'm asked for more than a couple of dozen!).I'm not really interested in ones trying to trick it or reverse engineer the prompt. Just natural things you'd try using it for if using it as a tool.@simon
(DIR) Post #ASgSF6VgM7cwcB0AUa by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-02-14T22:11:45Z
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@frabcus - How old is an elephant seal that weighs 450lb? Follow-up question: How does that make you feel?- Explain the lagrangian equation in terms of the Muppets- Invent a title for scientific paper written by bunnies about how many oats is too many oats for a bunny to eat, then write an abstract where the evidence obviously indicates that too many oats are bad for bunnies, yet somehow the paper authors (who are bunnies) conclude that they should get unlimited oats
(DIR) Post #ASgSFDnJGyt3CsIqRM by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-02-14T22:11:59Z
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@frabcus (These are all things I've asked of ChatGPT in the past few days)
(DIR) Post #ASgTN89qDI63zoB2Gm by frabcus@mastodon.social
2023-02-14T22:26:33Z
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@simon Elephant seals: It's picked an interesting range of sources, but the numbers to actually check out from them very accurately.
(DIR) Post #ASgTttDykvBvEmjWC0 by frabcus@mastodon.social
2023-02-14T22:32:15Z
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@simon Muppets:https://skybison.flourish.org/~francis/tmp/muppets.txt
(DIR) Post #ASgUh0PcounDigbJb6 by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-02-14T22:38:48Z
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@frabcus Curious that one of the suggested follow-up questions there is "Do you like being Bing Search?"
(DIR) Post #ASgUv32LrIi1ujPWkK by frabcus@mastodon.social
2023-02-14T22:37:42Z
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@simon Bunnies: Super curious where you're going with this one!No references, but here's the text: https://skybison.flourish.org/~francis/tmp/bunnies.txt
(DIR) Post #ASgUv3YbvMVtWmVI1o by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-02-14T22:42:36Z
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@frabcus (Our bunnies broke out of their enclosure and raided the nearby oats bag)ChatGPT ended up refusing to write one version of that abstract for me:
(DIR) Post #ASgVayNpYDAddyRsYa by frabcus@mastodon.social
2023-02-14T22:51:36Z
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@simon it worked out an utterly different answer the second time I asked this (to try and get to "Do you like being Bing Search?" again, which failed)
(DIR) Post #ASgVtTfXyBrxt4Yium by frabcus@mastodon.social
2023-02-14T22:54:50Z
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@simon ChatGPT was happy for me when using the same wording I used with New Bing.Is this perhaps because you did it in two shots, and that meant the second request was *just* about misleading, whereas in the first it was diluted by the rest of the request?Or just random variance!
(DIR) Post #ASgW6mzbR973aBHtDM by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-02-14T22:56:59Z
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@frabcus weird little snippet of a personality peeping through there! I really don't know that I want my search engine to pretend to like certain things, even just elephant seals
(DIR) Post #ASgWKfJslGKbq7OEDo by frabcus@mastodon.social
2023-02-14T22:58:36Z
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@simon I don't mind in practice - I just don't tend to ask it how it feels, as my mental model of the world is that that won't tell me anything useful or interesting. I've a very tool-centric view of this!
(DIR) Post #ASgWKhCrkJuJgw7eYy by frabcus@mastodon.social
2023-02-14T22:59:33Z
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@simon for the record I asked it anyway: