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by gctwnl 703 days ago
Why, if the author asks it to summarise a single webpage and gives the link should ChatGPT go out and load 5 more (one is the same page again, the others short overview pages, so won't have influenced the result much)

And why all this talk about trying to engineer a prompt so that in the end the result is good? Should an actual usable system not just handle "Please summarise [url/PDF]"? That is, I suspect, what people expect to be able to do.

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Summarize clearly means something different to the author and the people who think the model results are good. Everyone expects different things. Most people are used to others knowing their preferences and adjusting over time. Models do not unless you tell them.