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Re: GPT‑5.3 Instant

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Post by danielparsons »

shirro wrote: post #239

In 30 years the only sort of novel idea anyone has come up with for making money out of tech that has got any real traction is harvesting people's data. Web search - data harvesting. Social media - data harvesting. LLM as a service - data harvesting. Is that because the same money people keep betting on the same sorts of ideas from the same sort of graduates from the same cultural background? There was crypto coins b…

Because it's useful...

I do wonder if all this extra user data will be of much use. I suppose it could make commerce frictionless, recommending the exact product/service to you at the ideal moment, before you've even heard of it.

But the nature of innovative products and services is that most people don't know how to use them yet, and therefore they can't be recommended based on user data. So idk...

Re: GPT‑5.3 Instant

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Post by Rohunyyy »

appointment wrote: post #233
zachallaun wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel you. I've been using en-dash in my writing for decades, but finding myself removing them now for fear of being mistaken for an LLM. (They tend to use em-dash, but I don't think people are going to distinguish between – and —.)

em-dashes and en-dashes are used for completely different purposes, so why would they be confused?

Why wouldn't they. Never studied them. Never even thought twice about the dashes in a sentence. Didn't realize they were different till like a few months ago when everybody suddenly started focusing on how "AI" it makes everything look

Re: GPT‑5.3 Instant

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Post by Dylan16807 »

kenjackson wrote: post #200
sunaookami wrote: post #191

The single biggest issue for me with ChatGPT right now is how absolutely awful it sounds in every answer. "Why it matters", "the big picture", "it's not jut you", the awful emphasis, the quotations with rhetorical questions, etc.. I don't know if it's intentional so you can easily spot ChatGPT-generated content on the web? The very first GPT-5 version was good but they ruined it immediately afterwards with "making th…

The most frustrating part for me is that this is how I used to write. I was always doing, "Why X works, but Y doesn't" and stuff like that. I may have seemed trite or pompous (or both) in the past, but now it seems like I'm copying an LLM -- which actually feels worse. One thing I haven't seen ChatGPT do much of is use sound-effects, so swoosh here we go with my new writing style schwing !

Just wait until someone makes a filter to turn emojis into sound effects.

Re: GPT‑5.3 Instant

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Post by sbinnee »

I am always confused with the gpt names. So, via API, it's called "gpt-5.3-chat-latest". I haven't used their web UI for a while. Would this mean that this is the default model for their chat UI?

Re: GPT‑5.3 Instant

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Post by Dylan16807 »

snypher wrote: post #240
appointment wrote: post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

em-dashes and en-dashes are used for completely different purposes, so why would they be confused?

I would think to most people, (myself included!), it's just a 'dash'. A sentence was written with a dash - you could just ingest and read past it, like a comma. Not saying this is accurate usage, maybe just real world usage.

I would hope most people can distinguish between the really short dash and the longer forms, even if they don't know any of the rules around them. But n versus m I don't expect people to notice.

Re: GPT‑5.3 Instant

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Post by 7thpower »

zachallaun wrote: post #224
kenjackson wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The most frustrating part for me is that this is how I used to write. I was always doing, "Why X works, but Y doesn't" and stuff like that. I may have seemed trite or pompous (or both) in the past, but now it seems like I'm copying an LLM -- which actually feels worse. One thing I haven't seen ChatGPT do much of is use sound-effects, so swoosh here we go with my new writing style schwing !

I feel you. I've been using en-dash in my writing for decades, but finding myself removing them now for fear of being mistaken for an LLM. (They tend to use em-dash, but I don't think people are going to distinguish between – and —.)

That is what I mourn the most. They were my punctuation get-out-of-jail free card.

I didn’t love them enough to figure out how to type them without doing two dash’s in Word and then backspacing out of one and hitting space again — but damnit, I miss it.

Re: GPT‑5.3 Instant

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

hazyc wrote: post #199
sunaookami wrote: post #191

The single biggest issue for me with ChatGPT right now is how absolutely awful it sounds in every answer. "Why it matters", "the big picture", "it's not jut you", the awful emphasis, the quotations with rhetorical questions, etc.. I don't know if it's intentional so you can easily spot ChatGPT-generated content on the web? The very first GPT-5 version was good but they ruined it immediately afterwards with "making th…

It's a somewhat annoying to me as well, but I'm now able to read it and take the valuable content without getting hung up on those repetitive phrases. It also forces me to not simply copy/paste. I read the LLM output, think about it, comprehend it in my own voice internally, and then I write what I want/need by hand, so it ultimately comes out in my own style and I don't propagate the LLM output onto others needlessl…

Glad I saw a comment like this.

TBH, while I may find the output style somewhat infomercial-ly, I don't really get the hatred. ChatGPT IS NOT AN ACTUAL PERSON. Like why do people care so much? Like you said, I just ignore the "persona" phrases, and just use ChatGPT (or, used to anyway, before switching to Claude because OpenAI leadership can suck it) to get information and answer my questions.

Seriously, though, just stop using ChatGPT in any case, there are very good reasons to boycott it and there are other alternatives. Not saying the alternatives are saintly, but they're not as awfully duplicitous as OpenAI.

Re: GPT‑5.3 Instant

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Post by Majromax »

appointment wrote: post #233
zachallaun wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel you. I've been using en-dash in my writing for decades, but finding myself removing them now for fear of being mistaken for an LLM. (They tend to use em-dash, but I don't think people are going to distinguish between – and —.)

em-dashes and en-dashes are used for completely different purposes, so why would they be confused?

En-dashes, set off with spaces, are an acceptable substitute for unspaced em-dashes in some style guides. See for example this Canadian government guide: https://nos-langues.canada.ca/en/writing-tips-plus/en-dash.

The use seems to be more common in British than in American English.

Re: GPT‑5.3 Instant

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Post by ibejoeb »

hungryhobbit wrote: post #150
ibejoeb wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was there a recent archery incident?

OpenAI just took a major US military contract from Anthropic because Anthropic had morals and wouldn't let the US military use Claude to surveil or attack US citizens ... ... and OpenAI didn't. The military said (effectively) "we need to be able to use AI illegally against our own citizens", and OpenAI said "we'll help!"

Ok. What does that have to do with archery?
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