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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by haanjiPT on Saturday November 18, 2023 @02:06PM (#38323144)
The following are a part of my "custom instructions" to chatGPT -

"Please include a timestamp with current date and time at the end of each response.

After generating each answer, check it for internal consistency and accuracy. Revise your answer if it is inconsistent or inaccurate, and do this repeatedly till you have an accurate and consistent answer."

It manages to follow them very inconsistently, but it has gone into something approaching an infinite loop (for infinity ~= 10) on a few occasions - rechecking the last timestamp against current time, finding a mismatch, generating a new timestamp, and so on until (I think) it finally exits the loop by failing to follow instructions.

Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by daveguy on Saturday November 18, 2023 @06:19PM (#38325925)
I think you are confusing a slow or broken api response with thinking. It can't produce an accurate timestamp.