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by irjustin 22 days ago
What did you expect?

For me the video is basically what I expected. Maybe a cool/spookier "full page" reveal but that doesn't really work with the token speed well.

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For me, once a couple words loaded the cadence/pace of the streaming words in the response was so recognizably “ChatGPT” it immediately lost the sorta eerie mysterious feel and almost veered into parody/comedy.

Like imagining the wizarding world full of Hogwarts students writing out prompts for “Write a 500 word history of the polyjuice potion, sound natural using my own voice, do not use em dashes, no mistakes.”

> do not use em dashes

I've never seen this work. With Claude at least (even Opus), you'll get "Sure – no em-dashes in the text." or "P.S. – one last thing..."

and then if asked to review, it will show in its thinking trace "the command said no em dashes. But this is in a P.S., so that's normal use – keep."

I expected, from the description, it to look like text was being written by hand -- with the letterforms being stroked at roughly human pen speeds. Not just a fancy font over a text box being entered character by character. The description WAY oversells it.