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by insin 1075 days ago
> I suppose it’s also useful for generating things like letters (things where exact truthiness doesn’t really matter). But even for that use case, I find ChatGPT creates overly verbose corporate gobbledygook whenever I ask it to generate text

This makes it perfect for creating purely time-wasting "content" - I've started sending back generated responses to people who cold-email offers to buy one of my browser extensions.

8 paragraphs (why is it always 8?) of leading waffle which is relevant to their original email. If they read more than 2 of them they've wasted more time than I spent replying.

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8 paragraphs is the context limit.