What can I help you with?

ChatGPT
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Hello,

I have noticed that when I open ChatGPT, the phrase “What can I help with?” appears. As far as I know, the more natural and grammatically correct construction would be “What can I help you with?”.

I assume that the current phrasing was chosen for a specific reason, but if it is not intentional, I wanted to report it as a possible improvement. At the same time, I would be curious to understand the reasoning behind this choice, as there may be reasons unknown to me for this grammatical structure.

Thank you for your time and for your work!

Best regards,

Carlo

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A user asks if "What can I help with?" is grammatically correct, and the assistant confirms its correctness while noting it may be colloquial. (Captioned by AI)
A user asks if "What can I help with?" is grammatically correct, and the assistant confirms its correctness while noting it may be colloquial. (Captioned by AI)633×296 9.01 KB

Don’t let an AI look deeper into its own misgivings about internal placements, though:

Observed Grammatical Issues in Tool Context Specification

While investigating the primary issue, I reviewed the contextual # Tools specification for completeness. The following grammatical inconsistencies were noted. These are unrelated to the bug report but may warrant correction for clarity and polish.

1. Missing space after period

Do not send any messages to it.If the user explicitly asks...

  • Issue: No space between sentences.
  • Correction:
    Do not send any messages to it. If the user explicitly asks...

2. Incorrect verb form

Use the guardian tool to lookup content policy...

  • Issue: “lookup” is used as a verb; it is a noun.
  • Correction:
    Use the guardian tool to look up content policy...

3. Subject-verb disagreement and incomplete construction

...asking an image generation request that needs or related to...

  • Issue: “request” is singular; “needs or related” is an incomplete and mismatched construction.
  • Correction:
    ...making an image generation request that needs or is related to...
    or:
    ...requests that need or are related to...

These issues may be worth addressing for furthering AI inference quality.