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Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?

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Generally I use it to try and waste as much of Open AI and Microsoft's money as I possibly can. I try and get it to use the absolute maximum number of tokens as I possibly can for free doing pointless tasks, I use the image generation to produce the weirdest art I can without triggering the censorship and when I'm bored I just tell it as many lies as possible and make it treat them as truth. I don't know if this is f…

Sound like you're having fun :)

Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?

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Generally I use it to try and waste as much of Open AI and Microsoft's money as I possibly can. I try and get it to use the absolute maximum number of tokens as I possibly can for free doing pointless tasks, I use the image generation to produce the weirdest art I can without triggering the censorship and when I'm bored I just tell it as many lies as possible and make it treat them as truth. I don't know if this is f…

Is this not acting in bad faith? What is driving you to do this, is it not better to simply let it be and focus on something else?

Censoring their models was the first act of bad faith.

Sounds like OP is just running tit-for-tat.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?

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I used it recently for the following:

- writing some un-avoidably inefficient SQL which required transforming 10 columns with _1-10 numerical suffix into one column

- creating some geo dummy data. I had a set of 10 pairs of lat-lon coords that I needed shifted 50 meters north-west. ChatGPT did it using an approximation method and worked well.

- creating a custom Python logger

Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?

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I wonder how long it will take for advertising to get injected into LLM replies?

"I would like to roast a leg of lamb. Kindly provide instructions" You'll need: > A 2kg leg of lamb from Bob & Mary's Finest Cuts [Maps Link] > A bottle of Yarden Merlot [Buy Online] or [Maps link] > Four organic red onions from [Maps link] > ... > [Click here] to order all the ingredients and have them by 6pm, after checkout I'll provide the cooking instructions. Thank you for using ChefGPT Free! Already have all th…

Where's the story? This recipe has no pathos! Tell us about your childhood.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this not acting in bad faith? What is driving you to do this, is it not better to simply let it be and focus on something else?

Censoring their models was the first act of bad faith. Sounds like OP is just running tit-for-tat.

tbh I always wondered why do they call themselves 'openai' since models are not open. But does that mean people should do things like what OP says..

Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?

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Mine is a chrome plugin called LookupChatGPT (on Github and store) to send selected text to ChatGPT but with your own prompts. My main usage is here on HN, when I don't understand some new jargon or some complex idea I select that text, right click and do "what's this" which is a system prompt I have defined like "explain the given word or sentence or translate it. This is taken from webpage title: VAR_PAGE url: VAR_URL".

Can also just click the extension icon and ask a question, again using your own predefined prompt.

It popups up a box with response and a field to ask another question. I can re-request the response which is very helpful since you never know what's right.

Works for text selection from input boxes on a page but I don't use it that way much.

Recently used it to translate some Japanese tweets.

Made this extension mostly using GPT-4 so there is that too.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?

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I’ve had a big need for abstract algebra in a side project and ChatGPT 4 has been The Best tutor (on top of several books and YouTube videos). Gives examples on the spot for your specific needs in any way you want. Gives broad overviews of a subject so you can make deeper dives elsewhere (Google, Math Stackexchange). Relates concepts to other parts of math. Implements math in my programming language of choice. I’m su…

Can it teach me basic calculus???

Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?

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post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this not acting in bad faith? What is driving you to do this, is it not better to simply let it be and focus on something else?

Censoring their models was the first act of bad faith. Sounds like OP is just running tit-for-tat.

It should not have surprised anybody that publicly run models would be censored. OpenAI has a mission that they are not keeping secret at all.

Apart from that, censoring what one's web service can be used for is a very common CYA strategy to avoid damage to the brand and not causing governments to push through overtly harsh laws.

Differently from social networks, model censoring does not even remotely restrict anyones constitutional rights. And who really wants to run big uncensored models can just use open source ones (which are approaching GPT 3.5 performance) and run them on 2nd hand GPUs from ebay since for LLMs bulk VRAM is more important than raw processing speed.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?

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post #9

I just bounce random showerthoughts I periodically have about various topics and it offers different perspectives I did not previously consider and helps connect dots in my head. It's excellent at Socratic dialogue. I sometimes use it to solve actual problems I'm having otherwise, usually software design related, and more recently involving Stable Diffusion since its April 2023 update.

May I ask you to elaborate on how ChatGPT is involved with Stable Diffusion for your use case?

Asking it about more technical details about how SD works for some specific task. Nothing to do with its ability to generate images itself. Although with newer breakthroughs like Latent Consistency Models, it's aging like milk already.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?

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Mine is a chrome plugin called LookupChatGPT (on Github and store) to send selected text to ChatGPT but with your own prompts. My main usage is here on HN, when I don't understand some new jargon or some complex idea I select that text, right click and do "what's this" which is a system prompt I have defined like "explain the given word or sentence or translate it. This is taken from webpage title: VAR_PAGE url: VAR_…

Can this be used to provide a tldr on a long, detailed or rambling post?
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