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Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? by misnome on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @02:35PM (#40720737)
Does this work without “Clever Hans” prompting it with the implication that there is something to notice?
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Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? by williamcotton on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @04:23PM (#40721847)
Yes.
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Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? by Jensson on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @09:36PM (#40723904)
I just tried with 4o and it didn't notice anything, it just rewrote the statements with different words.
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Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? by williamcotton on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @07:12AM (#40727113)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40721115
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Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? by misnome on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @07:18PM (#40733411)
You explicitly asked it to explain?
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Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? by williamcotton on Thursday June 20, 2024 @06:42AM (#40737128)
You need to ask it something or else it is just a weird sentence floating in a void. What would a reasonable response be? “And..?”
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Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? by hoosieree on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @08:47PM (#40723601)
No. Remove the "explain" or "what do you think" or "think critically about" types of phrases from the prompt and you get this kind of thing:

My prompt:

    Joe drove Sue to the university. Afterwards, he drove home again and drank tea with her in the kitchen.
GPT-4o Response:

    Your sentence is correct, but for a slightly smoother flow, you could rephrase it as: Joe drove Sue to the university. Afterwards, he returned home and drank tea with her in the kitchen.
It will never "notice" anything off about the input unless you ask it to. I'm consistently impressed how many supposedly tech-savvy people believe GPTs turn into magic orbs if you make them big enough.
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