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TheOtherKC's avatar

I've heard a lot of people ask why ChatGPT has that particular inoffensive, servile, and actively bland writing style. People complain about it. However, it's looking like OpenAI made the right call doing whatever they did to give it that "ChatGPT style". Its refusal to attribute emotions to itself, the speed with which it reminds humans that it is an unfeeling LLM with no opinions of its own, the lifelessness of its default prose style... all carefully engineered to avoid exactly what we're seeing happen to Bing here.

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I made this comment elsewhere, but it's relevant to this specific case as well: Using purely text generation focused AI models for search still seems incredibly misguided in an "everything looks like a nail" kind of way. It's just not designed for that kind of task. I really don't get why most media outlets have decided to frame it that way (thus writing a marketing claim that even OpenAI themselves wouldn't use because they know it's inaccurate) and especially why corporations like Microsoft and Google believe them, when there are way, WAY more obvious and fitting applications for the technology (from fiction writing to coding assistance). It's a specific tool for a specific use.

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