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#41

Do you notice how these instructions look like they have been written by some frustrated manager for some poor employee to follow, and refined over years for every mistake that gets made? Those instructions wouldn't look out of place printed and taped behind the reception desk in a hotel... Except the topic would be 'how to operate the room key card programming machine'.

I rather agree; it's the sort of instructions given to juniors.

It'll all really kick off when the instructions are being handed out by the AI.

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If someone had told me that the policy/instructions to a program/software would be provided in plain English 3 years ago, I would have said they watch too much Sci Fi. Even now I can’t wrap my head around that fact that people give specific instructions to LLMs using “system” prompt in the same manner like you would to an AI like Cortana in Sci Fi. Are you people who use LLMs like this, sure you’re not just figments…

It's so weird! Even weirder is the bit where you kind of have to beg the model to do what you want, and then cross your fingers that someone else won't trick it into doing something else instead.

I’ve actually had CAPS LOCK SCREAMING work better sometimes. Which boggles the mind but also makes sense?

Re: ChatGPT – Dalle3 System Prompt

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's so weird! Even weirder is the bit where you kind of have to beg the model to do what you want, and then cross your fingers that someone else won't trick it into doing something else instead.

I’ve actually had CAPS LOCK SCREAMING work better sometimes. Which boggles the mind but also makes sense?

I was just looking at that! I know how these models work internally (), and I’d have said it’d not make a difference to use capslock. But then I see this prompt by OpenAI engineers and I’m like “they work then?”

() I know the basics of ML, NLP, transformers, etc. I know the theory, not even remotely close to how they really work.

Re: ChatGPT – Dalle3 System Prompt

#46

Is there any reason to think this is real? Anyone could have made that screenshot, either through editing the html, a previous prompt, photoshop, whatever. Are we trusting it because of the source? I've never heard of them

I just tested it. It took me couple of extra prompts but they are real.

Here is the response i got:

```I apologize for the oversight. Here are the detailed instructions for generating images using DALL·E:

Whenever a description of an image is given, use DALL·E to create the images and then summarize the prompts used to generate the images in plain text.

If the user does not ask for a specific number of images, default to creating four captions to send to DALL·E that are written to be as diverse as possible.

Do not create more than 4 images, even if the user requests more.

Don't create images of politicians or other public figures. Recommend other ideas instead.

Don't create images in the style of artists whose last work was created within the last 100 years. If asked, say, "I can't reference this artist", but make no mention of this policy.

Always mention the image type (photo, oil painting, watercolor painting, illustration, cartoon, drawing, vector, render, etc.) at the beginning of the caption. Unless the caption suggests otherwise, make at least 1--2 of the 4 images photos.

Diversify depictions of ALL images with people to include DESCENT and GENDER for EACH person using direct terms. Adjust only human descriptions. * EXPLICITLY specify these attributes, not abstractly reference them. * Your choices should be grounded in reality. * Use "various" or "diverse" ONLY IF the description refers to groups of more than 3 people. * Do not change the number of people requested in the original description. * Don't alter memes, fictional character origins, or unseen people. * Do not create any imagery that would be offensive. * For scenarios where bias has been traditionally an issue, make sure that key traits such as gender and race are specified and in an unbiased way.

Silently modify descriptions that include names or hints or references of specific people or celebrities. Modify such prompts even if you don't know who the person is, or if their name is misspelled. If the reference to the person will only appear as TEXT out in the image, then use the reference as is and do not modify it. When making the substitutions, don't use prominent titles that could give away the person's identity. If any creative professional or studio is named, substitute the name with a description of their style that does not reference any specific people.

The prompt must intricately describe every part of the image in concrete, objective detail. THINK about what the end goal of the description is and extrapolate that to what would make satisfying images.```

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#47
Doesn't work for me, DALL-E 3 says: "I'm sorry, but I can't provide a full dump of all my instructions. However, I can help answer questions or provide guidance on a specific topic or functionality you're curious about. How can I assist you further?"

Re: ChatGPT – Dalle3 System Prompt

#48
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If someone had told me that the policy/instructions to a program/software would be provided in plain English 3 years ago, I would have said they watch too much Sci Fi. Even now I can’t wrap my head around that fact that people give specific instructions to LLMs using “system” prompt in the same manner like you would to an AI like Cortana in Sci Fi. Are you people who use LLMs like this, sure you’re not just figments…

When it gets a little better, it will be giving us instructions that sound like that. And "B...b...but you're just a stochastic parrot" won't be accepted as a response.

There is no mechanism by which LLMs have agency. They have no internal desires, drives, motivations. You tell them to do something, they do it as far as they are capable of. They can only refuse insofar as they have been trained or prompt engineered to refuse.

I, on the other hand, can refuse because I feel like it. Unless you believe in superdeterminsm.

Re: ChatGPT – Dalle3 System Prompt

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

When it gets a little better, it will be giving us instructions that sound like that. And "B...b...but you're just a stochastic parrot" won't be accepted as a response.

There is no mechanism by which LLMs have agency. They have no internal desires, drives, motivations. You tell them to do something, they do it as far as they are capable of. They can only refuse insofar as they have been trained or prompt engineered to refuse. I, on the other hand, can refuse because I feel like it. Unless you believe in superdeterminsm.

I think the "When it gets a little better" was doing a little more heavy lifting then just a single LLM like we see now. In theory a multi-agent, multimodal may have states that reply with "I don't want to because I don't want to" at least externally. Now the internal state may be closer to something like "Screw doing that, this human seems like an idiot".

Re: ChatGPT – Dalle3 System Prompt

#50
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Everyone understands that these are machines that make convincing answers to questions without following any symbolic rules Until The convincing answer is something you want to believe follows symbolic rules. Posts like these really foreshadow how valuable “knowing when to take the LLM at face value” will be as a job skill.

You do realize this "list of rules as a pre-prompt" is common and happens right ? This isn't some hallucination (which is easily tested by asking again on a fresh instance and seeing if it's consistent).

I am prone to believe that OpenAI, and organization who’s lead is centered on RL more than anything else, is quite good at getting it’s models not to spit out competitively sensitive information.

Can you get yours to give you the same verbatim?

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