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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Just don't ask it to count the number of Rs in the word ORION, as that will trigger it to turn us all into paperclips and then output the wrong answer.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Nah it can do that, probably because they wrote a workaround to use python to count chars in a string, just like they did with arethmetics.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

out of curiosity once I tried to ask it to make a colouring picture from a photo of a toy for my kids and it just ran what seemed like imagemagick filters over the photo to convert to black and white and pump up contrast to only show the hard lines - just like all the free convert to outline web tools that have existed forever. I asked it to try again but without the filters, instead to identify the object, and to draw it in a colouring book outline style, and it spat out some shitty stylised mishmash derived from all the illustration IP it stole and ingested. I still feel guilty for trying even that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

your guilt is correct.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I saw a diagram explaining the 'agent architecture' of chatGPT and it was a whole set of lines and arrows just to say how if you ask about the weather it queries a weather API, and so on.