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ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System

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Re: ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System

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Me: > Pretend to be an IBM mainframe. Stay in character, don't give any explanation or description, just give the output a real IBM mainframe would give. If you don't know what output to generate, just make up something plausible looking. You are running TSO. READY alloc fi(report) da('library.report.feb08') new sp(1,1) cyl lrecl(80) recfm(f b) blksize(6160) ChatGPT: IEF142I library.report.feb08 ALLOCATED TO DDNAME R…

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Re: ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System

#72

Me: > Pretend to be an IBM mainframe. Stay in character, don't give any explanation or description, just give the output a real IBM mainframe would give. If you don't know what output to generate, just make up something plausible looking. You are running TSO. READY alloc fi(report) da('library.report.feb08') new sp(1,1) cyl lrecl(80) recfm(f b) blksize(6160) ChatGPT: IEF142I library.report.feb08 ALLOCATED TO DDNAME R…

Me: > please simulate a compuserve user session from its heydey. i want the text user interface experience

Thank you for verifying your identity. You are now logged in to CompuServe.

Here are some of the available commands:

    MAIL - check and send messages
    GO - access different forums and sections of CompuServe
    DIRECTORY - search for other users or services
    PREFERENCES - customize your CompuServe experience
    LOGOUT - exit CompuServe
What would you like to do today?

Re: ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System

#74
post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is exactly what Google was found to be doing for Bard with ShareGPT.

This is disputed and google denies doing it.

I mean, not 100% sure Google can be trusted here if we're also looking at their behavior recently in cases involving the law.

Re: ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System

#75

Many unrealistic things about this. Various hallucinations, mistakes, anachronisms, etc. Interesting, but not the mark of an AI capable of abstraction or memory.

Yes, no BBS I used looked like that also. Also funny that it has those ASCII chars to draw frames at the beginning, but completely misses their purpose.. so much for the emergent inference. Is this 3 or 4?

And requiring an email address for sign up. Nobody asked for that on 1987 BBSes.

It’s indicative of what I see often with ChatGPT. People asking for things they don’t know about and not realizing how much it got wrong.

Re: ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System

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post #57
post #4

Sidenote, thanks for showing me sharegpt... Often you want to show something and screenshots are such a terrible way to go. I don't understand why OpenAI doesn't have a share icon with a pretty print html link. Hey OpenAI, that'd be a good idea?

Just me or is scrolling/panning super broken? MobileSafari on iOS latest

Good catch – we just fixed this!

~ Steven & Dom from ShareGPT

Re: ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System

#77

Many unrealistic things about this. Various hallucinations, mistakes, anachronisms, etc. Interesting, but not the mark of an AI capable of abstraction or memory.

You misunderstand what GPT does or how it works. (Basically "just" Markov chains with a billion parameters.)

Re: ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System

#78
post #26

I don’t recall chatting with anyone who wrote with such good grammar, spelling, or politeness. I do remember a lot of “shut up kid go back to high school!” But I can see how someone who wasn’t there might think this is what it was like.

I was actually trying to have it generate a Reddit comment section in the midst of a troll war.

It’s weird how that thing can be sassy and rap, but seems unwilling to generate « bad internet comments » It’s hard to get anything but bland content.

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