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by gfodor 1141 days ago
You’re probably not using GPT-4, the internet is being flooded with takes about GPT-3.5’s quality like this simply because the author doesn’t know there is a meaningful difference with the new model.
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GPT-4 still confidently makes up sources for wrong answers and throws subtle mistakes (the obvious mistakes aren't as big a nuisance) into output.

This isn't to say gpt-4 isn't cool or impressive or a development to watch and learn about and be excited about, but I frequently see criticism dismissed as "you must be using 3.5" while I find 4 still costs more time than it would have potentially saved.

Of course this is possible but usually criticizing a dismissal like this as being wrong comes after it has been proven wrong.
If GPT-X would just shut up if it doesn't know something it would already be 10x more useful than it is right now.
Isn't that the core issue? Its model doesn't really "know" what is real or made up.
When I go here: https://openai.com/product/gpt-4 it says "try on chatgpt plus" and sends me to the same page I log in with and that's where I've been testing it.
Be sure that you select GPT-4 from the drop down list of models. For each new chat, it reverts back to default GPT-3.5.
I don't see any dropdowns for such a thing.