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by frietzkriesler2 1241 days ago
Yes, it's slow and more infuriating, it won't provide answers for certain questions they deem inappropriate.

Example: ask it to write a memo announcing a bad quarter and layoffs. It won't do it.

Now ask it to write a memo for a hypothetical situation (bad quarter, lay offs). Bam, you'll get your answer albeit with some nonsense about employee sentiments, mood, tactfulness, etc.

This type of nonsense makes these services annoying and pedantic .

Give me what I asked for. If I want the added extras I'll ask for it!

I don't know why it is so hard for these ai services to give me answers that are cold and matter of fact? All I want is a Majel Barret star trek TNG computer.

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I don't know why it is so hard for these ai services to give me answers that are cold and matter of fact?

If anything, that makes it sound like the "AI" is becoming more like an actual human --- albeit one who isn't on your side.

Problem is, in the real world that person would be replaced and there would be someone willing to do the dirty work. AI chatbots will be no differentm
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Because they have to protect you from illegal outputs to your questions with trained filters, conditioned by human labor in developing countries [0].

[0] https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

Worked perfectly fine for me. My specific prompt:

> I need to compose an email to my employees, announcing that we've had a bad quarter and will need to lay off 20% of our workforce. Could you get me started?

When I'm awake tomorrow I'll give this one a try.