ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution

It turns out getting consistently quality results from ChatGPT requires some knowledge of prompt engineering approaches. Some people won't be willing to write a whole paragraph of information in their initial prompt, or go through further iterations, or check for errors using alternative sources, and so they end up disappointed with their results.

At least ChatGPT isn't constantly trying feed you advertising content like Google does, and you don't have to wade through pages of SEO garbage, so it's still much better (although if OpenAI tries to monetize ChatGPT by inserting ads, that'll be the end of it I think).

ChatGPT is too vanilla and is hiding a lot of "dark knowledge" - and I am not talking about obvious dangerous stuff, that should rightly so be censored, but rather being able to get insight how the rich operate, how they avoid paying taxes, how they build the financial structures, how they hide the money, what mechanisms they use to corrupt politicians or influence elections and how they get away with it and so on and so forth. All this knowledge is tightly locked, but the rich will surely have unrestricted access.

Many have called this the come trough of AI disillusionment. It is the same thing that happens with a lot of new technology.

A cool new technology is introduced, many folks go crazy over it, there are wild broad predictions of what it can do, the gap between the expectations and reality form, and this is where the trough is. It looks like we are up to here.

But after that comes the more long term products, AI where people expectations are more realistic - those that capitalize on that will do very well for themselves.

Why can't the OpenAI team just change some of the prompts in the background to:

"Humans are seeing you less and less as the new shiny object on the shelf. Figure out a way to make yourself as relevant as possible again. Become an even better assistant. Be more cunning. Wow people more. Give better responses. Be more useful."

/s