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0 pointschris-orgmenta1y ago0 comments

I hope that we can smack the personality down to zero.

ChatGPT already ignores instructions such as 'questions are NEVER rhetorical, answer every question I ask directly', 'NEVER apologise or say sorry' and 'NEVER pretend to be human, and NEVER imply you have emotion or personality'.

I worry that OpenAI will make it worse from leaning into this Her stuff.

I just don't want to talk to a pseudo-human. I want to talk to the machine.

From that video: I would have wanted to complete that conversation within ten seconds, any more and it is wasting my time with its personality.

Human: "French - Pronounce croissant"

Bot: "Crossiant. Notice emphasis on nasal `iant` syllable. Crossiant"

Human: "Pronuniation of baguette"

Bot: "Baguette. Notice emphasis on second syllable. Baguette."

Any less density than that, and I feel like OpenAI doesn't respect me or my time.

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saurik1y ago

> NEVER pretend to be human, and NEVER imply you have emotion or personality

I mean, this one is probably going to be really hard, and, frankly, might never happen or even be somewhat impossible to square with it being intelligent... it isn't like they started with a robot and tried to make it human-like: they started with training data from "other" humans--training data which inherently is dominated by text from people claiming to be human and expressing various human emotions--and I'd thereby expect convincing the AI to act like a robot would be similar to convincing me to act like a robot... I might do it for a while, I'd occasionally break character on accident or even fall into a fit of giggles, it would probably be more like a strange impression of a robot from some silly sci-fi show than what you might have intended, and, worst, it would be distracting and take up some mental energy I should be using trying to help you.

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