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Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?

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Re: Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?

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> I personally don't get offended by words, but I guess if you are born after the 2000's perhaps you should avoid it. Ouch

Belittling the youth is one way that insecure people make themselves feel better about getting old.

And dismissing the old is one way that youth make themselves feel they know better.

Re: Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?

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No, not at all. I've received more slurs than you can imagine for being Spanish. I just don't care. Sorry if it comes as blunt but I find no better way of saying it, you just don't understand the culture of the site, which is meant to filter people like you. They are just words on a screen from an anonymous person somewhere. Easily thrown, easily dismissed. It makes no sense to be offended because some guy I don't kn…

But that's the thing, I do understand the culture. I spent the better part of my teens browsing and shitposting with the best of them. It just gets exhausting and stops being words on a screen when the hate you see there is reflected in the real world. It seems on the surface that you are all there as equals bashing one another but that's not exactly true, there's a hierarchy you find out the moment you say something…

If you stop reading 4chan, the words posted there will magically stop offending you. Food for thought.

Re: Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?

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> I personally don't get offended by words, but I guess if you are born after the 2000's perhaps you should avoid it. Ouch

Belittling the youth is one way that insecure people make themselves feel better about getting old.

>> Belittling the youth is one way that insecure people make themselves feel better about getting old.

That seems like one possible explanation for the comment. ;-)

Re: Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?

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It’s been mostly fine for me, but overall I am tired of every answer having a paragraph long disclaimer about how the world is complex. Yes, I know. Stop treating me like a child.

>Stop treating me like a child. And yet the moment they do that some lawyer submits a bunch of hallucinations to a court and they get in the news. Also, no, they don't want it outputting direct scam bullshit without a disclaimer or at least some clean up effort on the scammers part.

Does that have to be at the beginning of every answer though? Maybe this could be solved with an education section and a disclaimer when you sign up that makes clear that this isn't a search engine or Wikipedia, but a fancy text autocompleter.

I also wonder if there is any hope for anyone as careless as the lawyer who didn't confirm the cited precedence.

Re: Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?

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> incredibly complex problems > write a minimal PDF parser Perhaps i’m missing something, but why is this “incredibly complex”?

how many lines of code do you think you could do it in?

I dont know - it’s a genuine question. I honestly didnt expect this to be a complex problem, let alone incredibly complex. I genuinely want to understand where the challenge lies.

Re: Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?

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> Microsoft is a big stakeholder and they might not want to get sued... Liability could explain a lot of it. Microsoft is also responsible for Copilot (based around a “it’s unconditionally fair use if you use a mirror” legal theory) so this doesn’t track.

Perhaps Microsoft would rather you pay for both ChatGPT and Copilot.

Gotta pay for every use case of the general purpose LLM separately!

Re: Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?

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You should beware that /lmg/ is full of horrible people, discussing horrible things, like most of 4chan. Reddit's r/locallama is much more agreeable. That said, the 4chan thread tends to be more up-to-date. These guys are serious about their ERP.

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Well, you certainly have the personality type I’d expect from someone who frequents 4chan

Edit:oof, checked his profile like he suggested and in just two pages of history he’s engaged in climate change denial and covid vaccine conspiracies. Buddy, I don’t think using 4chan to “train my brain’s spam filter” is working too well for you. You’ve got a mind so open your brain fell out.

Re: Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?

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That's just not true. Treat adults as adults, please. You're not everybody's babysitter and neither are the sf bros.

Thanks for writing this. Mentally healthy adults need to point this out more often, so that this patronizing-attitude-from-the-USA eventually finds an end to its manipulative tactics.

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Re: Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?

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> incredibly complex problems > write a minimal PDF parser Perhaps i’m missing something, but why is this “incredibly complex”?

Can you give us an example of something you'd consider to be a complicated problem? Certainly, you could look at PDF as a boring-ass "follow the spec" experience, and indeed - I think this is precisely why certain arbitrary limitations are in place now.

I honestly have no clue about what makes pdf parsing a complex task. I wasnt trying to sound condescending. Would be great to know what makes this so difficult, considering the pdf file format is ubiquitous.

Re: Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?

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Which is just a way of saying he not part of any of the demographics where going to 4chan to see people froth at the mouth dehumanizing and belittling people like you is self-harm. Wow an edgy white man not offended at seeing racism and transphobia, so brave.

Not him, but I browse it and I’m Jewish. I’d rather have free speech and see constant posts about holocaust denial and oven jokes and just ignore them

Having free speech is allowing Birth of a Nation to exist, not making popcorn and watching it every night.
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