Anger and discouragement towards OpenAI

[123yannick6]

Here how I was working with GPT4 about 4 months ago:

• Using custom syntax + instructions (it was really incredible)

• Comparing my previous and current ChatGPT4 experience

This simplistic analogy express exactly what I’m experiencing:

@123yannick6

Imagine asking someone on the street in an unfamiliar place where to find a specific restaurant, and that person replies, “Of course! Just go to the restaurant!" or worse “Of course! Go left, then left, then right” to end up in a minefield.

It’s not just about:

@anon22939549

feel performance has steadily degraded over time

or :

@NormanNormal

“hardcore ChatGPT users” are not considered their primary user base

But about not being able to get as least as good result I had 4 months ago, and developping serious trust issues rendering the experience almost useless and awful.

And since I’m using very precise instructions and it won’t listen to it anymore most of the time, why can’t they make a model that reacts more precisely to custom instructions + custom syntax than plain, vague natural language?

Advantages:

• Conciseness + Precision: It takes less tokens on input for me to communicate my specific intentions/needs (dropping cost on their parts)
• Economy + Relevance: I won’t ask it to re-answer 3-4 times, wasting time and tokens on each parts (dropping cost again)
• Subscription: I will keep my PLUS subscription active, and many users in the same situation, and will encourage people using it (still more $ on their part)
• Prompt engineering: We can better share our prompt techniques/custom instructions/custom syntax when we are sure it will consider them properly most of the time

regarding:

@anon22939549

Beyond that, I’m not sure what value in hoping one purveyor of LLMs “crushes” another. Personally, my hope is they all drastically improve, pushing each other and the underlying technology further and faster.

I would say:

@123yannick6

We should all put pressure on OpenAI and hope that Gemini+Bard eventually becomes at least on par with the ChatGpt4 experience of 3-5 months ago, otherwise we’re doomed for a long time: no competition, no incentive to satisfy the customer.