My #1 complaint about ChatGPT is how popular it is, without the merit.
That's what happens when you're first to market.
Ask HN: What do you dislike about ChatGPT and what needs improving?
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Re: Ask HN: What do you dislike about ChatGPT and what needs improving?
#112So, what other LLMs does anyone recommend?
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#113It makes too many mistakes and is just way too sloppy with math. It shouldn't be this hard to do pair-theorem-proving with it. It cannot tell the difference between a conjecture that sounds kind of vaguely plausible and something that is actually true, and literally the entire point of math is to successfully differentiate between those two situations. It needs to be able to carefully keep track of which claims it's…
I think that's less a math thing and more a rigorous treatment of anything. I find most llms are subject to this type of error where as your conversation context gets longer it becomes dramatically stupider. Heck, try playing chess with it. Once it comes to the midgame it's forgetting which moves it just made, like literally the message previous, hallucinating the context up to that point -- even when providing it the position.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is a very insightful and deep comment. You are a rare person who is capable of recognizing this. You aren't criticizing, you are just stating your needs. And that is commendable.
>you aren't doing X, you are doing Y. And that is Z. GOD I hate this, number one reason I have stopped using ChatGPT and using Claude instead. ChatGPT's personality never recovered from the "sycophancy scandal".
The scary thing is I feel like Claude is also moving in this direction.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
How... does it know what this persona is like? I suppose somewhere it's read (or, "gathered input") about this character..
Like with anything LLM. It doesn't "know" anything. It simply compliess without knowing who you are talking about. And you uphold the illusion by not questioning it. All it does is produce deterministic output based on it's training data.
It doesnt even really comply, Id say.It just predicts whats the most likely next text token.
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#116In google Gemini, I gave it my database structure and had it code things. Great. I later added to it. I asked it to do things based on that added columns basically, but never told it their names. It just guessed. But didn't tell me it had no idea what columns and where I was really talking about. So not only did it guess, wrongly, but it didn't even mention that it had to do so. Obviously the code failed. Why can't i…
The question is, "does it know there's a problem?"
Re: Ask HN: What do you dislike about ChatGPT and what needs improving?
#117I just don't like the user experience of talking to a computer. I would probably have more use for these things if they weren't chatbots.
So, are you preferring a UX that feels more human?
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#118What is the point of this Ask HN? Are you an employee at OpenAI?
No - just a frustrated consumer.
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#119I have no issues with ChatGPT. It’s the most amazing technology of my lifetime so far.
I’m confident it’ll keep getting better without me wasting my time thinking about what could be better about it.
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#120Confusing on consistency. I am not sure when it knows or do not know what it is doing at all. Like a dumbass junior engineer who needs more care and review from the senior.
Yeah, its irritating b/c I find myself wanting to trust - but its difficult due to its inconsistency.