If I want to know what chatgpt thinks about something, I can ask it myself
When one logs on to Chat GPT, they get the following notices:
> This is a free research preview.
> Our goal is to get external feedback in order to improve our systems and make them safer.
> While we have safeguards in place, the system may occasionally generate incorrect or misleading information and produce offensive or biased content. It is not intended to give advice.
> Conversations may be reviewed by our AI trainers to improve our systems.
> Please don't share any sensitive information in your conversations.
Effectively no guidance or instructions indeed. Perhaps ChatGPT is sometimes confidently incorrect because it learned from online commenters.
None of them say what the product is, what it does, or how to use it — which are the kind of thing one might call guidance and instructions.
Those are just disclaimers to make sure you don’t hold OpenAI responsible for anything you do with this thing, or blame them for anything they do with your attempts.
It is not a product. They open it so that public can contribute to help them.
They do not say the aim of this research.
OpenAI handed this tool to people with effectively no guidance or instructions so that they can trade on the glow of misconceptions and harvest user data. The whole point of giving the thing away for free these last few months is to let people make fools of themselves like this while pumping up OpenAI’s value as a technology firm. It’s no accident that they don’t engage to clarify all these persistent misunderstandings.