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by CrazyStat 2274 days ago
What do you want to write about: flu vaccine effectiveness

Prompt: The annual flu vaccine is an effective way of

Result: The annual flu vaccine is an effective way of preventing the spread of the flu. However, it's not always effective, so it's important to

Ok, decent so far. I extended it with another prompt:

Prompt: still take precautions such as

and now it goes off the rails, completely forgetting what we were writing about

Result: The annual flu vaccine is an effective way of preventing the spread of the flu. However, it's not always effective, so it's important to still take precautions such as blocking websites with a "Spam filter" and scanning your emails for any suspicious messages. But many

Complete waste of time for anything other than SEO spam writing.

2 comments

Thanks for trying it out and providing valuable feedback!

Could you please try hitting the "Continue" button? Since the first generation was reasonable, you could just continue until the generation starts to veer off.

A new prompt is needed to express the next thought and so on. Typically, 1-3 continuations are possible with decent results in most cases.

In any case, this is extremely useful feedback that we will address.

Could you please not give up and try the above suggestion?

Thanks!

Also, each time you hit "Complete" or "Continue" a new completion is likely to be generated.