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Um… I have a lossy-compressed copy of DISCWORLD in my head, plus about 1.3 million words of a fanfiction series I wrote.

I get what you're saying and appreciate the 'second opinion machine' angle you're taking, but what's going to happen is very similar to what's happened with Stable Diffusion: certain things become extremely devalued and the rest of us learn to check the hands in the image to see if anything really wonky is going on.

For the GPT class of AI tech, the parallel seems to be 'see if it's outright making anything up'. GPT-4 is going to be incredibly vulnerable to Mandela Effect issues. Your ideal use-case is going to be 'give me the vox populi take on something', where you can play into that.

The future is not so much this AI, as techniques to doctor and subvert this type of AI to your wishes. Google-bombing, but for GPT. Make the AI be very certain of things to your specifications. That's the future. The AI is only the stage upon which this strategy is played out.



They check for Mandela Effect issues on the linked page. GPT-4 is a lot better than 3.5. They demo it with "Can you teach an old dog new tricks?"


> Um… I have a lossy-compressed copy of DISCWORLD in my head, plus about 1.3 million words of a fanfiction series I wrote.

You mean word-for-word in your head? That's pretty impressive. Are you using any special technique?


I assume not, that's why he said 'lossy'.




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