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Re:ChatGPT vs. a Cryptic Crossword by Bluecobra on Monday December 05, 2022 @11:53PM (#33876074)
I tried using it to solve Wordle and it failed spectacularly:

> What 5 letter words can be made only from the letters w,e,y,o,p,d,f,g,h,j,k,z,x,c,v,b,n,m? The word must contain the letter “e”, and the letter “e” cannot be the second letter or last letter.

> Here are five five-letter words that can be made using the letters you provided, and which contain the letter "e" as the first or third letter:

fewer: a smaller number of people or things eyewp: not a valid English word yowep: not a valid English word oweyp: not a valid English word pweyo: not a valid English word

Re:ChatGPT vs. a Cryptic Crossword by asey on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @12:49AM (#33876365)
Models like these don't see words as made of up letters but rather see the whole words (tokens) as a single entity. The result being they're not very good at creating novel (non-memorized) anagrams/palindromes and the like.
Re:ChatGPT vs. a Cryptic Crossword by scotty79 on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @12:44AM (#33876338)
Funnily enough when you ask it about words that don't exist it gives you examples of totally real words.
Re:ChatGPT vs. a Cryptic Crossword by modeless on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @12:06AM (#33876152)
Ask it to write a Python script to solve Wordle instead