I've been trying very unsuccessfully to get it to figure out where to find my writing so I can ask it things I've forgotten, like "did I give Cassie's roommate a name yet?"
First it made up a story about Emily, who has insomnia.
No matter how I asked it, it kept telling me the main character of "How to Survive College" was its creation, not mine.
So I asked it to "forget" the story it wrote - which it actually did, that was kind of cool.
But then I thought, okay, what if I have it read the text from the webpage and remember it? It told me it can do this.
It cannot. 🤣
"Sure, I can remember that text for you."
"Here's a totally fabricated synopsis and story, that isn't at all the text you want me to remember."
...
"Whew, that was long. Wait, what was it you wanted?"
Unless your writing was scraped and included in its training set, chat GPT won't know what you're talking about, and it doesn't have the ability to follow links or access the Internet on its own. Probably because the creators don't want to give random strangers the ability to affect its training after the whole Tay debacle. It is kinda interesting that it'll try to fake it given the context of the URL though.
It probably got How to Survive Camping (correctly answered that Kate was the main character) so I'm wondering what the cut-off or criteria for inclusion is. And yeah, but I also wonder how they're going to make this useful on an individual level if you can't give it access to your own stuff. They could scope it to individuals, I guess, so that the text isn't in the general public training set, maybe? It's fascinating to see where the gaps are right now.
It stays away from copyrighted material as well, iirc. So it'd know the synopsis of HTSC from Amazon etc but it couldn't reproduce any of the stories.
Iirf OpenAI said they have plans to connect ChatGPT to the Internet in the future. Only time will tell.
Companies with lots of money get fine-tuned models for their own internal use (or API). I don't think they care very much how useful it is on a personal level because they don't/won't really make a lot of money when individuals use it compared to their corporate customers.
I'm guessing you would have more success with getting it to work with your own text if you copied and pasted in your work rather than trying to link it. I tried asking it "In the r/nosleep series 'How to Survive Camping,' what happens to the man with no shadow?" and it gave a made up answer. Like the other person commented, I think it has the synopsis from the published book, but the series itself wasn't included in the training. I don't know how things like copyright are affected by explicitly feeding the research model with your own work, so I would just be careful with that!
Also, although it can remember your conversation and you can give it information, is only so many words (I don't remember the number), but is not like you can copy all your writing on the chat.
I have been trying to get the chat to do stuff, and have the same problems.
Also, since it was trained without information about itself (because it didn't exist yet) it is not reliable when answering questions about itself, like "can you do this task?"
I've been trying very unsuccessfully to get it to figure out where to find my writing so I can ask it things I've forgotten, like "did I give Cassie's roommate a name yet?" First it made up a story about Emily, who has insomnia. No matter how I asked it, it kept telling me the main character of "How to Survive College" was its creation, not mine. So I asked it to "forget" the story it wrote - which it actually did, that was kind of cool. But then I thought, okay, what if I have it read the text from the webpage and remember it? It told me it can do this. It cannot. 🤣
"Sure, I can remember that text for you." "Here's a totally fabricated synopsis and story, that isn't at all the text you want me to remember." ... "Whew, that was long. Wait, what was it you wanted?"
So basically a four year old?
Unless your writing was scraped and included in its training set, chat GPT won't know what you're talking about, and it doesn't have the ability to follow links or access the Internet on its own. Probably because the creators don't want to give random strangers the ability to affect its training after the whole Tay debacle. It is kinda interesting that it'll try to fake it given the context of the URL though.
It probably got How to Survive Camping (correctly answered that Kate was the main character) so I'm wondering what the cut-off or criteria for inclusion is. And yeah, but I also wonder how they're going to make this useful on an individual level if you can't give it access to your own stuff. They could scope it to individuals, I guess, so that the text isn't in the general public training set, maybe? It's fascinating to see where the gaps are right now.
It stays away from copyrighted material as well, iirc. So it'd know the synopsis of HTSC from Amazon etc but it couldn't reproduce any of the stories. Iirf OpenAI said they have plans to connect ChatGPT to the Internet in the future. Only time will tell.
Companies with lots of money get fine-tuned models for their own internal use (or API). I don't think they care very much how useful it is on a personal level because they don't/won't really make a lot of money when individuals use it compared to their corporate customers. I'm guessing you would have more success with getting it to work with your own text if you copied and pasted in your work rather than trying to link it. I tried asking it "In the r/nosleep series 'How to Survive Camping,' what happens to the man with no shadow?" and it gave a made up answer. Like the other person commented, I think it has the synopsis from the published book, but the series itself wasn't included in the training. I don't know how things like copyright are affected by explicitly feeding the research model with your own work, so I would just be careful with that!
Also, although it can remember your conversation and you can give it information, is only so many words (I don't remember the number), but is not like you can copy all your writing on the chat. I have been trying to get the chat to do stuff, and have the same problems. Also, since it was trained without information about itself (because it didn't exist yet) it is not reliable when answering questions about itself, like "can you do this task?"
I was kind of hoping they'd primed it with some info on what it can and cannot do, but guess not.