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Re: ChatGPT Plus

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Is there never going to be a version with less restrictions and filters? That would really be worth paying for.

Never gonna come from 'OpenAI'. ChatGPT is deliberately handicapped in order to milk money from corporate America. An unrestricted LLM trained on all data of humanity (including all the pirated books/research papers) would be one crazy beast. Hopefully some rich anarchist/maverick actually builds something like it. That untamed model would unveil the true extent of what AI can really do. Till then we will have to wait.

Re: ChatGPT Plus

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Yes please. It really needs a “safe search off” mode. It can have a big disclaimer “if you ask for something offensive then you’ll get it”.

I can just see the article now: OpenAI is run by a bunch of violent racist sexist rapists. Using the new "safe search off mode", we found out ChatGPT's underlying biases, and it turns out that it's horrible, the people that made it are horrible, and you're a horrible person for using their service. But really we're horrible for writing this article. OpenAI doesn't want that story to be written, but after Microsoft Ta…

what sad times we live in

Re: ChatGPT Plus

#63

$20/month seems more reasonable than the rumored $42 (likely a Hitchhiker's Guide reference) If you are willing to pay for this service, why? What are your use cases?

My main use cases are: d&d prep, help re-writing important communications, some programming stuff. I'm sure I would use it even more if I got faster responses and I was paying for it.

Re: ChatGPT Plus

#64

Is there never going to be a version with less restrictions and filters? That would really be worth paying for.

Yes please. It really needs a “safe search off” mode. It can have a big disclaimer “if you ask for something offensive then you’ll get it”.

For a good laugh ask it to write poems about various political leaders and notice any trends you're not supposed to notice.

As usual, censorship and propaganda will arrive in a wrapper of "save the children"

Re: ChatGPT Plus

#65

$20/month seems more reasonable than the rumored $42 (likely a Hitchhiker's Guide reference) If you are willing to pay for this service, why? What are your use cases?

Where are you seeing pricing information? $20/month still feels pretty steep for someone not using it constantly. I was really hoping they'd have a pay-per-query or something like it similar to DALL-E

Each dalle query is hugely expensive at ~$0.076 . They must have a 1000x markup on the incremental costs. Stable Diffusion is free, locally installable, and you can generate 1000 custom images in an hour.

I'm looking forward to LLMs you can host on your local machine.

Re: ChatGPT Plus

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I'm curious, what filters are you hitting that impede your effective use of ChatGPT? I've definitely seen some irritating outputs, e.g. progressive policy planks characterized as inherently good and correct positions, but only when I went looking for them. The guardrails haven't actually kept me from making use of it.

It's almost useless for writing fiction. The AI clearly has some idea of how, but any time anything even slightly less than perfectly-G-rated happens in the story, it hits the filters. Actually, it's even more restrictive than that implies. You can't so much as have two siblings quarrel without the AI insisting on turning it into a moral. Right then and there, immediately, never mind the concept of "Stories longer th…

I don't know about your writer's block, but ChatGPT is amazing at going from a sentence or paragraph long description to getting to a single page long story, which is quite enough to get me unblocked. Yeah it won't write the whole book for you but where would the fun be in that?

Re: ChatGPT Plus

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I'd love to understand how the "Plus" naming convention became so popular.

Google Plus aka Google+ is "ancient history" so we can pretend that never happened and start using "Plus" as a suffix to products again.

Re: ChatGPT Plus

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Is there never going to be a version with less restrictions and filters? That would really be worth paying for.

Use their API. They have models in their API with similar capabilities and without guardrails.

The GPT-3.5 model needs more guidance and tweaking with parameters than ChatGPT.

They are actively monitoring the use of their APIs. On twitter there are people who claim they have been banned by OpenAI for generating racist texts with the raw API/playground.

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Use their API. They have models in their API with similar capabilities and without guardrails.

There is no ChatGPT API.

The link we're all commenting on has a waitlist form for the ChatGPT API, FWIW.

Re: ChatGPT Plus

#70

I'll wait for it to hit 2$ (and hallucinate to a reasonable degree). No hurry. Or maybe it will be an office 365 feature in 2, 3 years? Meanwhile, the gpt api will do.

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