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GPT has been utter garbage lately. I feel as though it's somehow become worse. I use it as a search engine alternative and it has RARELY been correct lately. I will respond to it, telling it that it is incorrect, and it will keep generating even more inaccurate answers... It's to the point where it almost becomes entirely useless, where sometimes it used to find some of the correct information.
I don't know what they did in 4.0 or whatever it is, but it's just plain bad.
Yeah they basically killed it. I knew for a fact that it was way too good to be given like that to us common folks. I mean it still has some use cases, but its ability to "reason" about stuff or at least the illusion of it is basically gone.
Can you give some recent use examples of this? I don't use CHATGPT anymore but I used to get my code written by it and many of my classmates still use it
I think it is still pretty decent at "coding", but it used that I could throw almost anything at it about virtually anything and most of the time there was no hallucinations if the prompt was good. It has always been prone to beong influenced by biased prompts so you had.to work around that.
Lately I feel like I really need to draw out answers out of it. You have to insist to get past the cookie-cutter reponses and all the newly added "I am not a specialist therefore I refuse to answer". Historical questions are often refused too if deemed offensives. But really, its been unable to give me all sort of general facts like it used too by lying about the cutoff date of 2021, even after being corrected and apologizing. Some answers are purely 100% hallucinations. Its never been perfect but it used to be better than googling, well not anymore imo. It is still probably decent for non-historical questions, like coding.
My experience mirrors this, though I don't use it for much beyond a specific use case... I'm wondering why they neutered it so much?