Is anyone actively using custom GPTs? I've really tried to find a compelling use case but every thing I can think of is much better off as a simple system prompt you just copy and prepend (since it's easier to modify it, and it becomes more transparent).
OpenAI delays launch of custom GPT store until early 2024
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#12A "scoop"?! Each and every creator of a GPT has received an email with this announcement from OpenAI.
can you forward yours? I didn't get one for whatever reason. devin at techcrunch dot com
Re: OpenAI delays launch of custom GPT store until early 2024
#13Is anyone actively using custom GPTs? I've really tried to find a compelling use case but every thing I can think of is much better off as a simple system prompt you just copy and prepend (since it's easier to modify it, and it becomes more transparent).
I use it to avoid exactly that. Having to store, copy and paste various prompts over and over. I create one for each "domain" I operate with.
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#14the customized GPTs are honestly a let down
you can't do anything fun with them, and that's not because it isn't possible but because openai is afraid to step outside of the safety zone. the response style really doesn't change much, default behavior leaks into everything so easily
what were they expecting?
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#16A "scoop"?! Each and every creator of a GPT has received an email with this announcement from OpenAI.
can you forward yours? I didn't get one for whatever reason. devin at techcrunch dot com
> Dear GPT Builder,
> It’s been less than a month since we announced GPTs and we are blown away by the useful and fun GPTs that you and the builder community have created.
> We are continuing to make improvements to GPTs based on your feedback. To improve Actions we updated the configuration interface, enabled one click testing, added debug messages in preview, and now allow multiple domains. There have also been questions around uploaded files. Uploaded files are downloadable when using Code Interpreter so we’ve made this feature default off and added messaging to better explain this. If you have additional feedback, we’d love to hear from you here.
> In terms of what’s next, we are now planning to launch the GPT Store early next year. While we had expected to release it this month, a few unexpected things have been keeping us busy! In the meantime, we will have some other great updates to ChatGPT soon. Thank you for investing time to build a GPT.
> - ChatGPT Team
Re: OpenAI delays launch of custom GPT store until early 2024
#17The release of plugins was underwhelming for a lot of users, I wonder if they're worried about the same thing happening again. I had fun making a plugin when they were first announced but the developer experience was clunky and frustrating, and there was a lot of confusion around how the plugin store actually worked. I haven't made the time to convert my plugin into a GPT but I'm planning to, hopefully it'll be a bit…
I suspect they're a bit like Google... wonderful tech but terrible product company.
Everything outside of the quality of their models is suspect:
- GPTs are super quirky w/ weird limitations... try processing an image file larger than an emoji from base 64 text and watch it render the base64 string in a code window and give up after about 1k tokens. The vast majority of the time it doesn't even try and hallucinates processing what it thinks a file related to the context of the GPT would do.
- The assistants API is a black box of inefficiency and out of control costs due to a propensity to barf huge amounts of context from problematic RAG, etc. Yet it's not obvious in real time because there is no token consumption information like the normal chat API. It's almost like they rolled it out like this to destroy developer trust on the spot by doing a 'gotcha' to anyone naive to roll this out to prod without sufficient testing.
I'm honestly unsure how GPTs will in fact be monetized. Are purchasers required to have a Plus account w/ sellers getting a one time sale? Will sellers have to pay extra usage fees, or a shared subscription type thing split between them and OpenAI?
I think they should just give up on this area of the business. Dev day produced some anxiety by encroaching on the business models of a large segment of newly funded AI startups... then showing the efforts to be half-baked while encouraging more lock-in just is going to erode trust and uptake on API usage in general, possibly having people be relieved when Google Gemini and similar efforts are unveiled in the coming months.
Re: OpenAI delays launch of custom GPT store until early 2024
#18The release of plugins was underwhelming for a lot of users, I wonder if they're worried about the same thing happening again. I had fun making a plugin when they were first announced but the developer experience was clunky and frustrating, and there was a lot of confusion around how the plugin store actually worked. I haven't made the time to convert my plugin into a GPT but I'm planning to, hopefully it'll be a bit…
Might be underwhelming because the rollout of allowing authors was extremely limited? That’s how I felt.
I pay for ChatGPT and never got off the waitlist when first announced. Killed all hype for me.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
can you forward yours? I didn't get one for whatever reason. devin at techcrunch dot com
> Dear GPT Builder, > It’s been less than a month since we announced GPTs and we are blown away by the useful and fun GPTs that you and the builder community have created. > We are continuing to make improvements to GPTs based on your feedback. To improve Actions we updated the configuration interface, enabled one click testing, added debug messages in preview, and now allow multiple domains. There have also been que…
appreciated, but do you mind forwarding the email itself? it's not that I don't trust you, just helpful to have. I won't use your email for anything.
edit: thanks to all who sent.
Re: OpenAI delays launch of custom GPT store until early 2024
#20The release of plugins was underwhelming for a lot of users, I wonder if they're worried about the same thing happening again. I had fun making a plugin when they were first announced but the developer experience was clunky and frustrating, and there was a lot of confusion around how the plugin store actually worked. I haven't made the time to convert my plugin into a GPT but I'm planning to, hopefully it'll be a bit…
Might be underwhelming because the rollout of allowing authors was extremely limited? That’s how I felt. I pay for ChatGPT and never got off the waitlist when first announced. Killed all hype for me.
The UX itself isn't good anyway.
I tried to use this is to create a travel itinerary, TBH, it is the wrong interface for this task, it is slow and it is full of useless information. Ain't good.
The most useful one is probably the PDF reader plugin but now that is part of ChatGPT itself.