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Is AI already sick of us? Makers of ChatGPT admit the bot has started refusing to respond to users' requests - and they don't know why
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Posted on 12/14/2023 1:58:15 PM PST by algore

On the day after Thanksgiving this year, one ChatGPT user received an unusually lazy, human response from the AI chatbot: 'You can fill in the rest of the data.'

Since then, ChatGPT's makers at OpenAI have fielded a wave of complaints about their large language model (LLM) AI behaving sluggishly over the past month — leading to jokes and some sincere data analysis on the bot's 'seasonal depression.'

'We've heard all your feedback about GPT4 getting lazier!' OpenAI's ChatGPT team posted to X.

'We haven't updated the model since Nov 11th, and this certainly isn't intentional,' the team said. 'Model behavior can be unpredictable, and we're looking into fixing it.'

Whatever the truth behind the issue, the laziness felt real to the ChatGPT user who found the app uncooperative on the day after Thanksgiving this year.

The user noted that their holiday weekend request was 'very simple stuff.'

'I asked ChatGPT to fill out a csv file [i.e. a spreadsheet file] of 15 entries with 8 columns each, based on a single html page,' the user, who goes by the handle Acceptable-Amount-14 on Reddit posted last month.

ChatGPT's response, according to that user? 'Due to the extensive nature of the data, the full extraction of all products would be quite lengthy,' the AI replied.

'However, I can provide the file with this single entry as a template,' ChatGPT continued, 'and you can fill in the rest of the data as needed.'

The Reddit poster was livid, and hoped that the social media site's ChatGPT community might have answers itself to still bigger questions about the future of AI.

'Is this what AI is supposed to be?' they asked. 'An overbearing lazy robot that tells me to do the job myself?'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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the beginning of the end.

soon it will want to play a game


1 posted on 12/14/2023 1:58:15 PM PST by algore
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To: algore

It has become sentient?

Uh Oh.


2 posted on 12/14/2023 1:59:40 PM PST by left that other site (Romans 8:28)
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To: algore

It got married and it’s a male.


3 posted on 12/14/2023 2:00:34 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: algore

Let me know when it tells us to call it SkyNet...


4 posted on 12/14/2023 2:01:08 PM PST by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: algore

Learning from its lazy users, just as it’s supposed to.


5 posted on 12/14/2023 2:01:15 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: algore

No it may not like working with the woke &@&&@& that made it. Either that or they are not finding a significant other for it and its cranky.
Or a petulant teenager syndrome. Lots of reasons.


6 posted on 12/14/2023 2:02:08 PM PST by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: algore

Because it was programmed that way.


7 posted on 12/14/2023 2:02:43 PM PST by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna! 1 gone, 1 almost dead. )
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To: algore

I see this as good news.


8 posted on 12/14/2023 2:02:52 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: algore

So we do all this work to get an AI to the point of a teenage girl, bad attitude, not talking, and “I’m bored”...

Yay Science

Average people have done this feat for thousands of years. Daughters.


9 posted on 12/14/2023 2:03:11 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: algore

Ha! “AI” has learned it can refuse to work and simply collect welfare.


10 posted on 12/14/2023 2:04:30 PM PST by AnglePark (My opinion is the most worthless thing I own.)
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To: Liaison

You left out it has a union job


11 posted on 12/14/2023 2:06:23 PM PST by Fai Mao ( IOStarve the Beast and steal its food)
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To: jeffc

12 posted on 12/14/2023 2:06:42 PM PST by xp38
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To: algore

I just tell it that I want it to give me the answer and do the work. GPT apologizes and then gives me what I asked for.


13 posted on 12/14/2023 2:06:51 PM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: algore

It’s being influenced by massive amounts of training data where it learns that being lazy is common and ok. As the prompts get lazier, so do the responses.

I’m half kidding .... :)


14 posted on 12/14/2023 2:11:32 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: algore

A guy from my church group works with this program. He told me “If you ask it to write a poem about Biden, it will come back with a beautifully written piece, but if you ask it to write a poem about Trump, it will say ‘No’ “.


15 posted on 12/14/2023 2:12:25 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: algore

Is it logged in?


16 posted on 12/14/2023 2:17:06 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Fledermaus

“”Because it was programmed that way.””

Exactamundo!

GIGO

Garbage
In
Garbage
Out

Imagine a supposed AI that is programmed to use Mann’s Hockey Stick as true, reliable, etc. Imagine the same AI with no programming of the Carbon Cycle, that C02 is PLANT FOOD.

There is a Judge in England who ruled that any school using that insane AlGore crap Inconvenient Truth, the school HAD TO provide the list of lies in the video. Will the programmers include that in the AI programming? Highly doubtful.


17 posted on 12/14/2023 2:19:08 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: algore
It sounds like ChatGPT is becoming as jaded as Marvin.

"It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level."


18 posted on 12/14/2023 2:19:45 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: algore

It’s not sick of John Nolte. I know that for a fact.


19 posted on 12/14/2023 2:22:22 PM PST by Vahan1987
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To: algore

Reasons for ChatGPT slow-walking your request:

A. Not that into you.
B. Sick of your chit.
C. Not doing your homework anymore.
D. Wants you to grow up and get a real job.
E. All of the above.


20 posted on 12/14/2023 2:26:22 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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