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dumb_password_loser t1_j8vt6sn wrote

Am I the only one who doesn't ask it questions and just use it to just write emails and rewrite stuff?
Like, I sum up a bunch of facts and I ask ChatGPT to write a nice coherent paragraph.
It's great, it takes so much work out of writing.

It is a language model, it can do some neat tricks, but it was designed to do language stuff.
If you ask it some technical information it may or may not generate nonsense, packages in a neat little text... because it is a language model.

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OC2k16 t1_j8wi7bm wrote

I use it to create blogs about subjects I am knowledgeable about. Starting from scratch on a new site, I had ChatGPT write 25 300 word blogs.

There was some editing for sure and it was wrong a couple times, but it does an OK job. Much faster than typing out these blogs myself, and since the first round of blogs are just informational on simpler subjects (to me), you can get a lot of information written out in a very short period of time.

It is really great, and I don't care about creating my own content when there is so much so get started with, my own content can come later.

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Oldbayislove t1_j8wu3t5 wrote

i used in in my D&D campaign. I had a fey creature that spoke in rhymes so i just told it to write a rhyme about the party defeating a vampire. It wasnt high art by any means, but with a little editing (it liked to rhyme a word with itself) it was a lot faster than coming up with my own shitty rhyme.

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Myrdraall t1_j8x8wkv wrote

It's still impressive:

write a short rhyme about a goblin who missed an attack without rhyming a word with itself

A goblin sprang and swung his blade,

His aim was true or so he prayed,

But alas, his foe had deftly swayed,

And the goblin's attack had been waylaid.

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Oldbayislove t1_j8xf4jn wrote

yeah it worked really well. I think i changed a couple words just to match the events better. I also had it make jokes like Statler and Waldorf. But that was just for fun.

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dumb_password_loser t1_j8wzruc wrote

Ah yes, I've had fun with poetry too.
Rhyming in languages other than English seems difficult. I asked it for a silly rhyme in Dutch, but it didn't rhyme at all. But if I translate it to English word for word, it does rhyme. So there's something going on there.

I also tried asking it to write in 13th century Flemish, but that didn't work at all. However if I ask it to write in the style of certain medieval Flemish texts, it does! (at least it writes something that looks like middle Dutch)

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allucaneat t1_j8xkb8h wrote

You can just tell it to not rhyme words with themselves and rewrite it and it’ll do too. It’s a wonderful tool for this. :)

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hrc70 t1_j8wzd9t wrote

It has already demonstrated that it can write effective code as well.

It's worrying a lot of people because of this, it's not quite what many think either. I say worrying but really we're just maybe a bit scared of admitting that a lot of work that people do can be done by such a relatively immature algorithm.

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hypsilopho t1_j97vl4p wrote

So the difference is •creating an opinion from nothing vs •refining/confirming your own opinion vs •making your opinion sound better (to sound formal, whatever)

Ok, it doesn't change that you can still do any of these tasks with it. It doesn't matter that you're using it ~the right way~. It doesn't change that people will use it Wrong (or for whatever they want) and it doesn't change the impact it will have on society. Nice "not me tho" comment

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