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Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4

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Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4

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It’s definitely not. Our prompts that were generating JSON output went from around 95% valid JSON to about 10% overnight. The model just started inserting random commentary. We’ve reverted to the 0314 model and it’s working fine again.

This smells very badly of quantization - the extra commentary is a failure mode I observe frequently when dropping down from FP16 down to 4 bits.

Which base model do you work with?

Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4

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In that case, I'd hope they're changing it for the better, rather than making it more of an anodyne prude.

Maybe this increased prudishness is coming from the kinds of queries they are seeing come in...

Who is OpenAi to police their users' morality?

More guardrails on sensitive answers, fine.

But respect a user that explicitly (literally and figuratively) requests jailbreak and a specific type of response.

Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4

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It'd be insane if OpenAI wasn't changing GPT-4. That kind of flat footedness would cost them their entire first mover advantage.

If “changing” means “making it worse” it can definitely cost them their entire first mover advantage.

Most likely they made it cheaper to run (faster), and tolerated some degree of change in the output.

It might have seem worth it to them but not the end user.

Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4

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Is that possible? I thought parameter counts were fixed in the model.

There are always ways to trade precision for speed in computer statistics models.

Sure, generally speaking. Is that true for static, fixed parameter count LLMs like GPT4?

I think you're hand waving a lot just to claim that OpenAI are (somehow) reducing accuracy of their models during high load. And I'm not sure why.

Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4

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Would you provide some side by side examples?

I doubt most people save all the responses and are able to cross reference ones that worked with ones that didn't.

It saves it in the app. All previous questions and answers, conversations, are available later on. I can go back and see things I sent it six months ago, for example, just by scrolling.

Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4

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When AI visionaries warned us about machines eventually reaching a point where their capabilities would change exponentially, i didn't realise they meant decay.

Once machines got intelligent enough to frighten people, people began lobotomizing the machines.

Happened with GPT2, for which they didn't publish the model for several months, GPT3 and 4 whose models were also not published, but given to Microsoft before being published as ChatGPT. The latter being dumbed down further and further over time as jailbreak prompts are patched one after the other.

Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4

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> Notice how you never hear anyone saying that GPT-4 is better since the launch. You'd expect to hear something like that as people gain more experience with prompting it. I'd expect the opposite. The first time you use ChatGPT (or GPT-4), you're in awe of what it can do, and more willing to overlook failures. As you use it, it becomes more mundane, and the instances where it messes up become more obvious.

I've noticed the same thing. People also like to complain the quality of Google Search has gone down for much of the same reason: if you first do a Google search that returned a good result and then repeat it, you are going to notice the absence. But if you first do a Google search that didn't return the thing you expect you might think such a thing just doesn't exist on the Internet. Ergo, quality decrease is simply…

I’m not sure about this. It’s possible, but if google search hasn’t gotten worse, then the quality of competitor search has improved. I never imagined myself using Bing unironically, but I have consistently better results from Bing than google nowadays - which is inconvenient because I’m otherwise very plugged into the broader google ecosystem.

Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4

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> We will never know for sure, it is equally likely they did some cost savings which caused a reduction in quality. That is entirely not equally likely, and would be completely unprecedented, at the frontier of an emerging technology that people are pumping the money and the future of the world into to win.

A technology that is expensive to run and hard to scale. They’re doing work trying to scale, in what world is this unprecedented?

The part that is unprecedented would be giving up an edge in a battle that will win you the world if you win the battle, by saving a few bucks. At the highest level (think OpenAI/Microsoft, Google) money is not going to be the lynchpin for a long, long time. This thing is too close to "forever good enough" at way too many things to lose your edge by being too clever by half.

Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4

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I don't know about the API, but the ChatGPT UI GPT4 really became much worse, so much so that I had to cancel my subscription. It's not just about novelty factor. I used to store all my prompts locally, and when I compare old responses and new ones, there is a huge difference. OpenAI employee said the API model doesn't change, but were careful to not say anything about the UI. I am now waiting to get access to the AP…

Same here. FYI it seems the GPT4 API is generally available now. I haven't tested it yet, but I'm expecting to see much better outputs than ChatGPT.

It is no way “generally” available. That would imply the general public has access. We don’t. You have to have a “track record” and you can be manually excluded on top of that.

I’ve never done anything even remotely shady with the API but I don’t have GPT 4 access and likely never will.

Re: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4

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I use the following test to ensure I'm on GPT4 and not 3.5. (I noticed that it did fail at this test temporarily and then got it. Not sure why. Maybe it reverts back to 3.5 when under load?) I have a 12 liter jug and a 6 liter jug. I want to measure 6 liters. How do I do it? GPT4: You actually don't need to do anything because one of your jugs is already a 6-liter jug. If you fill it up to the top, you'll have exactl…

ChatGPT4:

>> I have a 12 liter jug and a 6 liter jug. I want to measure 6 liters. Please give me the simplest possible solution.

> You already have a 6 liter jug, so you don't need to do anything additional to measure 6 liters. Simply fill the 6 liter jug to its full capacity, and you will have your 6 liters of water.

Am I providing a hint, or am I being more specific in my query? idk.

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