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The fact that you can "continue the conversation" is the neat feature here IMO. Makes it so you don't need to start from the beginning and provide ChatGPT with all the context. Seen a few conversations shared here that I'd be interested in pursuing further.

It also means our conversation is recorded by openai, doesn’t it?

> It also means our conversation is recorded by openai, doesn’t it?

That was already happening anyway. But it means something else too

- shared prompts will be scrapeable for open source

- shared prompts will have many continuations and social feedback around them - valuable for training? who knows

Re: ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly

#75

how could you jointly edit a dialogue/file?

Call, text, write, or email a friend depending on how much patience and tolerance for asynchronicity in your co-authorship. Or else utilize a Google docs + Zoom screenshare type approach if you must have realtime interactions and absolutely not be sharing a keyboard or room.

thats mostly copy & paste. what if OpenAI chat would be more like google docs from the start?

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#76

Seems like a feature that benefits openai to create shareable interactive Twitter like posts… and um… no one else. “Wow, look at this conversation!” … …why did you not just post the text that was interesting? It’s text. Just control-c, control-v. Needing a share button for that seems the height of laziness. Two guesses what comes next; “likes” and “retweets” where you can continue the conversation with your own next…

Good for us too - we can scrape them all.

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ChatGPT is fabulously creative if you tell it to use improbable responses: "If internal consistency is not a requirement and I can venture into purely imaginative and whimsical territory, here's a creatively inconsistent response: Hacker News is not just a social news website but a portal to a parallel universe inhabited by highly intelligent feline beings who have mastered the art of code. These sophisticated cats,…

> Remember, this response takes a departure from reality and embraces playful inconsistencies for the sake of imagination and entertainment. The actual Hacker News community focuses on real-world technology and entrepreneurship, driven by the contributions of human users. You had to ruin it chatGPT.

I tell it to stop that, but it still does that sort of thing every few prompts when it loses the immediate token context window. Sometimes it’s wider continuity [1] will keep it off that pedantic path longer, but I still have to occasionally put into prompts things like “don’t remind me about blah blah blah every time”

[1] “continuity” is what it called the ability when, after about a half dozen prompts of interrogating it, I finally got it to acknowledge that it was still aware of something outside of its immediate context window (without me giving the direct knowledge with a leading question). I don’t know if it hallucinated the term “continuity” to account for its ability to look back further than the token context window or if that’s actually what the openai folks call it, but ChatGPT said it was limited, not everything was available, and there was some type of pruning based on perceived importance. I’ll try to dig up the precise wording and post in a comment to myself here, it’s late and I’m on a mobile device though and too tired and lazy to touchscreen my way through tons of chats histories. We need a global search of prior chat sessions.

Re: ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly

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EDIT: oops this is the correct link: https://chat.openai.com/share/69839da8-317a-4e3b-b215-f9e9ff... Previous comment: GPT-4 failing with a math question: https://chat.openai.com/share/53116ac3-0c44-410a-b367-c5df0a... (I didn't discover this. I was just trying to confirm something that was reported elsewhere.)

It's a language model, not a mathematical model. But plugins enable it to use something actually designed for this sort of work.

https://www.wolfram.com/wolfram-plugin-chatgpt/

Part of effectively using a tool like ChatGPT is understanding the boundaries and how to mitigate them. ChatGPT has lots of problems, but can still be incredibly useful.

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