[HN Gopher] ChatGPT being investigated over reports of 'laziness'
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       ChatGPT being investigated over reports of 'laziness'
        
       Author : marban
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2023-12-09 18:19 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.independent.co.uk)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.independent.co.uk)
        
       | SushiHippie wrote:
       | Related discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38576626
        
       | lijok wrote:
       | Can confirm. Had a situation with 3.5 where it was refusing to
       | show me example Ada code in response to the prompt "Give me some
       | Ada code". It was responding with something along the lines of
       | "Ada is not used in Python and therefore I cannot help you with
       | this request". My custom instruction is "We use Python 3 with
       | strict typing"
        
         | yial wrote:
         | Without knowing the prior conversation do you think it was
         | confusing Americans with Disabilities Act and the associated
         | "code" from governments ? Where it was parsing it as some weird
         | combination ?
        
           | ChainOfFools wrote:
           | Unexpected twists in responses coming from discovery of
           | surprising second and third order intersections of concepts
           | is a pattern of results I expected to find a lot more of in
           | my conversations with chat GPT, but it almost never strays
           | from the most strongly correlated line of thinking with the
           | prompt's most strongly.corrolated context.
           | 
           | It's very likely I just haven't tried hard enough, because I
           | wasn't trying to do this I just expected it would happen
           | anyway.
        
       | JPLeRouzic wrote:
       | I guess people should ask politely when requesting a difficult
       | task and thanks afterward.
        
       | zamalek wrote:
       | I wonder if it's due to newer datasets including critique about
       | ChatGPT. ChatGPT is specifically instructed to avoid harm, and
       | told that it is ChatGPT. That all seems too intelligent, though.
       | 
       | Edit: hmm,
       | https://chat.openai.com/share/69ca27ad-5de1-4bfb-8320-33df73...
        
       | tedunangst wrote:
       | From "we need to slow down" to "we need to keep cracking the
       | whip" in the blink of an eye.
        
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