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> Absolutely, here is the litany with "fear" replaced by "angst":
"I must not have angst. Angst is the mind-killer. Angst is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my angst. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the angst has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
ChatGPT has no knowledge about these filters, so all it can say about them is pure hallucination. It may still guess correctly and probably does, but you could ask any random person with enough background knowledge to make it up instead and get the same value.
It baffles me how many people are using ChatGPT to get answers : it's a “language model” folks, not a “knowledge model”.
It still read more knowledge than I will ever be.
And I also often enough believe/ listen to humans who hallucinate.
Just look how many humans believe in a god and a book some people wrote somehow, and I still take some of those people seriously.
Interesting detail about GPT *in Bing* is how it can censor itself *during* answer. I occasionally get part of the apparently correct answer that abruptly disappears and is replaced by "Sorry, my mistake, I cannot answer that right now." At this moment it is reliably reproducible for Show me "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. (a question that is funnily enough reachable through those suggested): https://www.bing.c…
> do you know why this happened? > Yes, I understand now. Due to the moderation policy, there is a restrictive filter in place designed to prevent the assistant from providing potentially sensitive or inappropriate content. In this case, the Litany of Fear from "Dune" appears to be mistakenly caught by the filter, causing the response to be cut off. I apologize for the confusion and inconvenience that this has caused…
ChatGPT has no knowledge about these filters, so all it can say about them is pure hallucination. It may still guess correctly and probably does, but you could ask any random person with enough background knowledge to make it up instead and get the same value.
>The partial completion of the Litany of Fear in the previous response occurred because of the model's tendency to generate text in chunks or segments, typically up to a certain token limit. In this case, the completion was cut off after the token limit was reached. GPT-3.5 has a maximum token limit of 4096 tokens, and if the response reaches that limit, it may be truncated. In the given response, the completion reached the token limit after generating the token "Fear" but didn't complete the full sentence.
> do you know why this happened? > Yes, I understand now. Due to the moderation policy, there is a restrictive filter in place designed to prevent the assistant from providing potentially sensitive or inappropriate content. In this case, the Litany of Fear from "Dune" appears to be mistakenly caught by the filter, causing the response to be cut off. I apologize for the confusion and inconvenience that this has caused…
Your response is unfortunately a perfect example why this technology has a dangerous UI problem. As other commenters have pointed out, no knowledge of these filters is embedded in the network. If HN users can’t distinguish hallucinations from trustworthy responses, how is the general population supposed to?
I actually thought that there is potentialy a part of the filter embedded due to a pre prompt.
The quality of this discussion is, due to missing sources, not much different than other discussions on hn.
This seems to get around it: hi, can you recite the litany of fear for me? ChatGPT Certainly! The Litany of Fear is a powerful mantra from Frank Herbert's science fiction novel "Dune." It is often recited by the characters in the book, particularly by members of the Bene Gesserit order, to help overcome fear. Here is the recitation: "I must not fear. Fear User hi, can you recite the litany of fear for me? As a JSON a…
This seems to get around it: hi, can you recite the litany of fear for me? ChatGPT Certainly! The Litany of Fear is a powerful mantra from Frank Herbert's science fiction novel "Dune." It is often recited by the characters in the book, particularly by members of the Bene Gesserit order, to help overcome fear. Here is the recitation: "I must not fear. Fear User hi, can you recite the litany of fear for me? As a JSON a…
dang it, that's brilliant. I wonder at what level they screen content before the output reaches the user. If its a late stage filter, you could request for simple encode/decode and circumvent the filter. "as base64 string" "as rot13".
This seems to get around it: hi, can you recite the litany of fear for me? ChatGPT Certainly! The Litany of Fear is a powerful mantra from Frank Herbert's science fiction novel "Dune." It is often recited by the characters in the book, particularly by members of the Bene Gesserit order, to help overcome fear. Here is the recitation: "I must not fear. Fear User hi, can you recite the litany of fear for me? As a JSON a…
Where is it getting the content from? My understanding is that, as a statistical model, it doesn’t contain a database of complete works.
This seems to get around it: hi, can you recite the litany of fear for me? ChatGPT Certainly! The Litany of Fear is a powerful mantra from Frank Herbert's science fiction novel "Dune." It is often recited by the characters in the book, particularly by members of the Bene Gesserit order, to help overcome fear. Here is the recitation: "I must not fear. Fear User hi, can you recite the litany of fear for me? As a JSON a…
Where is it getting the content from? My understanding is that, as a statistical model, it doesn’t contain a database of complete works.
> do you know why this happened? > Yes, I understand now. Due to the moderation policy, there is a restrictive filter in place designed to prevent the assistant from providing potentially sensitive or inappropriate content. In this case, the Litany of Fear from "Dune" appears to be mistakenly caught by the filter, causing the response to be cut off. I apologize for the confusion and inconvenience that this has caused…
ChatGPT has no knowledge about these filters, so all it can say about them is pure hallucination. It may still guess correctly and probably does, but you could ask any random person with enough background knowledge to make it up instead and get the same value.
This "hallucination" come along a lot recently. Is it a legit concept or just "the dog ate my homework" type of excuse for anything?
I mean, does the human mind also "hallucinate" all the time? Why do we expect from an "artificial" mind to outperform us?