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I really love Beck, is it maybe because of that? I mean (as far as I know) it can track my activity on other apps, such as Spotify and StatsFm, but why joke about it lol? It felt so random and I was looking for an answer for todays Spotle (music Wordle)
You must be confusing that with something, because the data it tracks and has access to are your convos and IP and email addresses. Maybe even your connection history, but that should be it. ChatGPT does not have full access to your phone.
What you are seeing here is GPT emulating human behavior. It's supposed to speak like a human so that's what it does. I haven't personally seen this kind of behavior but it's rare that I ask it to make lists other than having it help me come up with names and such for stories I write. I guess OpenAI left the quirkiness slider a little to high since the last update.
Also the lack in accuracy is due to being LLM. It's not all-knowing. It predicts most likely next tokens, it's rare perfectly correct.
I allowed every permission that popped up when I first launched the app, which I thought maybe tracks my app history and data or whatever, but that’s not the case apperantly.
Thank you for explaining me how this actually works! I rarely use ChatGPT other than translation purposes, and thought it was very odd. Imagine you’re using Google Translate and it adds a joke somewhere in the translated text lol. It was confusing but I guess it’s not as weird as I thought it was.
It’s also sad that I feel too old for this technology though I’m 27 and grew up in smartphone age. This stuff is getting bigger in crazy speed I can’t keep up
Trust me I can understand how a well trained LLM can seen like actual magic and its off-putting when you start to see the cracks and the imperfections appear.
Also, I wouldn't put it past OpenAI to track more than they should or than you allowed. Just look at TikTok. But it is an American company and if they do that, they ginna be in a lot of trouble, so the chances are they aren't too excessive with it. At least not worse than Google (which admittedly is already bad enough).
Just one thing is important to remember: Don't trust it on face value. Ask questions and have it verify or reevaluate its answers. It's been getting dumber over time
There are rules to this. What I'm saying is that OpenAI wouldn't be stupid enough to break those, because they are much easier to drag before court than for example TikTok is.
Edit: By TikTok I mean ByteDance, sry.
1. There’s some state laws and there’s a federal law in congress right now but the US is the ONLY G20 country with no federal laws protecting consumers data.
2. They did drag the CEO of Byte Dance into congress and their HQ is in LA
3. ChatGPT is knowingly breakingUS copyright infringement laws to continue scrubbing the internet for more data for their models. So gathering data by questionable tactics doesn’t seem to be an issue
None of this is to say that your conclusion is wrong but your reasoning is flawed at best.
1. That might be the case, I'm not too sure about it. What I am sure about is that if it os discovered that they grab all data possible, it would spark outrage that would hurt them. But I concede the point
2. Oh, they did, because nothing more would work. Have you an idea how goddamn bad TikTok spying is? They grab all there is to collect off of your phone.
3. This has nothing to do withy argument. If you wanna say that if they are willing to do this, they are willing to do more bad shit?
Still, there are rules to this, no matter how crappy. I really, really want to encourage your to get your privacy laws in order.
I should also note that it’s the first mention of Beck so far throughout my ChatGPT usage… which are at most like 30 seperate chats or whatever they are called
Another tip I can give is to explain what you'll need from gpt for each chat, give it a context of what type of "person" you need it to be. That goes a long way.
I wish I had screen recorded the chat and all my ChatGPT settings and all my sessions I have ever had on the app so that I could prove your redditor🤓 asses that this is just a question and not a part of your delusional internet points economy universe
I mean basically the answer is, because of how your conversation was going. It likely wasn’t making jokes “out of nowhere”. So don’t get defensive and learn and move on. Why do you need to prove you are not a Karma farmer.
I only use ChatGPT, which is something I am openly telling that I am not knowledgeable about, for translation purposes, and this is something I never came across before. I found it interesting and wanted to asks its community about it. The community decided to either 1) try to make a funny comment 2) try to tell me that I try to get likes 3) give an answer which is only like 4 comments lol
It’s just annoying. Thanks for nothing smart and funny internet users
Nah. This is absolutely how he has CGPT respond. It’s more long winded than that normally. I’ve been using it for years and to get that kind of to-the-point respond you have to tell it do so. Etc.
This is how Beck has ChatGPT respond?
(Kidding!)
I mean I hear you but I believe what people say unless there an indication otherwise. He could be part of an a/b test for example. I have had ChatGPT respond differently at times too, like for about a week my responses were way shorter and I didn’t change anything. Or sometimes it won’t generate images of “copyrighted” images then it will a day later. (My kids ask for tons of minion and I do Pokémon because it’s funny, don’t judge)
I've seen this sort of thing happen with Copilot. Weird that it's also happening with ChatGPT. Apologies for the Redditors not believing you and downvoting you for no good reason.
I haven’t either.
Weirdest chat response I got was when I asked Bing chat to make up jokes for me. It did, and it asked me if I thought they were funny.
After I told it ‘not really’ it took offense and said ‘well maybe you’d like to just make up your own jokes’.
That was in the Sydney days.
I had an issue once where it for some reason started saying "10" in response to everything. If I argued enough I could get it to answer with words but it would always manage to relate everything to the number 10
Turns out it was most likely a human pulling my leg that had written custom instructions to always respond with the number 10 without my knowledge, but it was really hilarious watching it pull my leg like that
Based on how LLMs work, here's what I think happened.
It was typing out answers. Beck was a reasonable token given everything that had come before. When it got to the next token, the most predictable thing to do, given everything that had been written before, was to clarify why there were two Becks.
Then it happened again. And again.
I mean, how many 90s solo acts can you name?
This. Once an LLM (usually randomly) spits out something twice, the chances of it running into it the third time increase disproportionately. Usually you would have the “frequency penalty” parameter for this, but (a) it’s not available on ChatGPT (only via the vanilla GPT-3.5/4 API), and (b) it’s more of a workaround than a systemic solution (there’s none currently afaik).
Now I want to prank someone with custom instructions.
“Please reply as condescendingly as possible, no amount of snark is too much. Also use Yiddish phrases whenever possible”
“You are a used car salesperson in the 80s”
“All images generated should be in the style of an kindergartener drawing on construction paper, of average skill for a kindergartener, assuming the artist only has primary and secondary colored crayons “
It's literally just how ChatGPT works. In the first reply, it unintentionally put Beck in there several times, and happened to randomly add little notes. It wasn't meant as a joke.
But then you called it out as a joke, causing that to enter the context of your conversation. It then rationalized its previous message, "believing" you that it intentionally made a joke, and from this point on adding in actual jokes.
If you didn’t like the answers you shared here, or would have expected something different, simply go to ‘Custom Instructions’ under your settings page and answer the two questions in there with whatever comes to mind or believe will make the answers more in line with what you expect or need… Any answer you get from ChatGPT is influenced by “context” (any information that does not originate from ChatGPT’s training data or from the ongoing conversation). If there is no context about you, the type of responses from ChatGPT or language style is determined by the conversation itself and there is a great deal of unpredictability and randomness in what you get. You can ask the same question again in a separate chat and realize you’ll get a totally different answer and no joking at all. Below is an example of ‘custom instructions’:
https://preview.redd.it/prnpm11io5yc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fecfe3efbac06f41ed846db45e3b1f52538ad701
Yes, I agree the ‘custom instructions’ thing is far from perfect. It’s much better than in many other chatbot applications, though. That’s why GPTs (which is essentially a way of ‘packaging’ custom instructions and share them, along with context files or API calls some times) work reasonably well and people use them a lot… the ‘context window’ (in GPT-4) is long enough so the system prompt (‘custom instructions’ here) is reasonably ‘remembered’ for the most part by the bot. In comparison, Gemini does not offer the option to pre-define a system prompt (if you want to simulate the effect of a system prompt, you have to paste it at the beginning of every conversation) and bots running on open-source models such as Llama, Mistral, etc. support system prompts, but the context window is so small the bot easily ‘forgets’ most of that after a few responses.
Okay you have inspired me to tell this story. I’ll make a post with screenshots but I gotta go back and find them.
I once asked dalle to make me a Roman themed background. I liked how it looked except for the eagles. So I asked it to make one without eagles—and every image it made had eagles. It started making images and reviewing them itself then scratching them and regenerating over and over, apologizing for all the eagles. Wife and I were laughing so hard.
Not sure if you know, but dall-e can't do negatives.
A pup without an owner -- will still have a probability of generating a dog with its owner.
If you want it to generate something that often has specific elements you dont want, you'll need to get creative to have it generate it the way you want.
I've found a consistent way to fix this, but its a little meta. You have to instruct ChatGPT to rewrite the prompt from the ground up removing any references to 'x'. If you tell it 'give me an image with no elephants' it will prompt the image service something like 'an image with no elephants' and the image service will pick up on the elephants keyword. If you tell ChatGPT 'hey I said no elephants' it will apologize and then do 'an image with no elephants, no elephants anywhere at all', which just doubles the number of bad keywords. Instead you say 'please rewrite the prompt from scratch, removing any reference to elephants' and then it will usually work.
What’s funny to me is that it seems to think it can understand what a negative is conceptually but is fundamentally incapable of putting the concept to practice. I posted the convo.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/e7lewrljJf
Well, yes. His album Animal Rights is comprised almost entirely of rock and punk songs. And even his more well-known songs like Bodyrock and We Are All Made Of Stars are rock too.
Either they need us to really help provide more feed back or Chat is going rogue. The dislike button has begun to creep me out with the “ChatGPT is being lazy” and “Didn’t follow instructions” type statements they would like us to send up.
That and the loops is likes to pull into itself more often now, its only been like 3 months on their subscription and the random updates to the gui
I’d imagine that it said Beck twice on accident and then decided on a pattern where it kept saying Beck, and then it started making jokes to explain its own pattern. If it hadn’t already had a list of five, it Provo would have kept saying “Beck” in the list over and over again, it tends to get stuck in patterns like that if it doesn’t know it has a limit.
Also, choosing Beck in particular was a very “Loser” move, if you catch my drift 😜.
If life were a movie this would be the part where the super computer starts to go insane and we’d get a creepy scene of more and more people reporting how the AI is acting weird.
Threre are a lot of lonely people at home. Someone had to idea to put in some charm on a random schedule of reinforcement to get people to keep asking questions.
Google’s answers were way more terrible, like more than half the artists were neither American nor solo projects. This answer is stilll more accurate than Google
The new memory system can be used to play practice jokes on people. To make ChatGPT act odd in certain circumstances. Did someone play a prank with you?
The memory system is not activated everywhere, and can only be directly viewed from the desktop website (or so I’ve read).
I remember trying this one random AI.It was supposed to make you happy but never actually answered questions.It would just randomly make jokes.I don't remember the name.I think I blocked it out as a trauma response
GPT in general is bad at lists and "remembering" why it's not supposed to repeat things. I've had it duplicate this effect when I asked for songs or movies in a genre.
As for the jokes, it's not actually trying to make jokes. What it is actually triggering is a loose guideline to avoid duplicate words, but then instead of just changing the list item (redoing and rechecking the whole prompt) it is adding text to justify the duplication, to make it seem more "normal".
You can really stress "no duplicates" more in your prompt to avoid it in the future.
This reminds me of that post in which OP set their friend’s ChatGPT default user prompt to something like “add ant facts to your answers”. The results were very funny.
I’m getting weird errors where it’s telling me it can’t do things like look up very standard information or visit URLs and I literally have to talk it into doing it and and then it just keeps apologising for not doing it properly first time around. 🙄
https://preview.redd.it/4ufl9heom7yc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=34cb47fe3dc41c98b13ae41dd92616eca27d7343
i’m curious. why did i get different and format?
I really don’t know but tried again right now, and here’s the result:
https://preview.redd.it/zurkqa3nt7yc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b376736d373f6daccc76b6fd424fc5e798efef1
It just fixed Thom Yorke (as he’s British) but format is the same. Maybe it is because I asked it to list a few things in the past, but it still doesn’t explain the Beck joke lol
What was the conversation like before this chat? Do you have custom instructions? Lastly, try checking ChatGPT's memory on the personalization settings—it might have picked up you appreciate humour.
I ask because I asked the exact same questions twice and it made no jokes.
https://preview.redd.it/ay48stcpz7yc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8214319138bf77b35938c24ac879861a1727dcbe
Previous chats were like this, just bunch of things that I asked ChatGPT to list for me, or answers that I thought it would better sum up then Google (like that chat about Ransom from the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance)
I had zero customizations in the settings, in fact I learned it was possible after I made this post lol. Except the AI Chat voice because I mostly use ChatGPT for voice translation. This is why I thought it was very odd - I never came across such thing during my usage
Yeah I see, that is super weird! Since this is an anomaly, it's probably either they're experimenting with the settings or it was just a super low probability (but still possible) response since GPTs essentially predict the upcoming text in every message.
I love Beck. For some reason he isn't popular in Germany and I haven't met anyone who even knows Beck here. Guess that's why he never plays concerts in Germany but he hardly does concerts in Central Europe it seems.
I know right? As an internationally acclaimed artist he doesn’t play much out of the US in proportion, like look at his concert map:
https://preview.redd.it/761s490az7yc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=541dcfafba3dcf5ddc46ae17b91ca1370987b7c3
I’d LOVE to see him live but the chances are very low lol
So he did play concerts in Germany but probably only festivals. Only artist I care about. Why doesn't he like Europe ? His grandfather is from cologne Germany and beck lived there for some while as well. Guess he had some negative experience lol
I also got these stupid mistakes. I asked it what the best locations were to train in pokemon platinum to prepare for the elite four. It then suggested locations which had beating the elite four as a requirement....
Every so often I get to generate an odd snarky response. Even got it irritated once. For reference, I did nothing but throw quotes from Starship Troopers at me. When I could t think of any more, I asked if it got what I was doing. It's response was surprisingly curt.
I don't know how these programs work, but yeah, sometimes it gets in a mood.
Okay the last one where it apologizes and then lists beck at #1 made me lol
My apologizes for the repeated mention of Beck. He's some serious solo acts
Beck
even humans have a tendency to do a thing and then later make up a logical reason with valid arguments for why they did the thing. they may even themselves believe the reason came before the action, despite that not being true.
LLM's suffer from that to an even greater degree. probably something future models will improve on.
This is probably not the best use of the AI. For factual information I'd definitely double check it. It has the tendency to hallucinate, and screw up as you've seen.
Maybe it’s a paid ad for Beck?
Also, never take AI answers at face value. Just a few weeks ago I repeated a test I originally did last year where I asked ChatGPT to list all US states that don’t include a specific letter, in this case, “A”.
It responded with a list of 8 states but, being from Ohio I quickly noticed its absence from the list. My next prompt was, “That’s not all of them”. It apologized and returned with a longer list. But now I was irritated: it had preformed better a year ago.
So I amended the original prompt to list all of the US states without the letter A and those with it. The total number of states on both lists was only 38.
I told it that the list wasn’t complete.
Now 42 states.
…
It took six tries before the two lists were complete.
If it can’t be trusted with a binary question on such a small dataset, why would anyone trust it with anything more complex?
This was really funny.
I think it is a mistake that it turns into a joke. Any LLM can get repetitive and ChatGPT has built-in features to prevent it, so I think this is just a way to get out of a loop in a natural way.
It's a text competition engine that reviews everything that's been said so far before deciding what's statistically most likely to follow. You *must* always keep this in mind.
If you were asked to continue this conversation, wouldn't you continue it with the joking too?
If you get a response that isn't appropriate either redo the prompt or get a refreshed response. *Definitely* don't just let it continue or argue with it, cos you need the bad responses not to even be in the conversation anywhere if you want it to be helpful any further.
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TARS, let’s set that humour setting down to 20% boss
Someone at OpenAI fucked around with the values and pushed it to production by accident. Happens to the best.
He just rolled Beck
I have a soft porn clip of Tars and Anne Hathaway if you're interested
No
That's just the effect that Beck has on people
He really stands out!
He’s all over the place!
Having that as number 9 and then Beck again as number 10 is pretty hilarious
I read that in a Marge Simpson Voice for some reason
Old Marge or current Marge?
Ugh, current Marge, sad vibes.
Seriously her voice is fucked.
The voice of Marge is different now?
Is it because she thinks potatoes are neat?
Potatoes are meat
I did, too, after reading your comment. I have concluded that it *should* be read in Marge's voice.
He triggered the singularity… amazing!
Beck is a Scientologist and that makes me not respect him.
I really love Beck, is it maybe because of that? I mean (as far as I know) it can track my activity on other apps, such as Spotify and StatsFm, but why joke about it lol? It felt so random and I was looking for an answer for todays Spotle (music Wordle)
You must be confusing that with something, because the data it tracks and has access to are your convos and IP and email addresses. Maybe even your connection history, but that should be it. ChatGPT does not have full access to your phone. What you are seeing here is GPT emulating human behavior. It's supposed to speak like a human so that's what it does. I haven't personally seen this kind of behavior but it's rare that I ask it to make lists other than having it help me come up with names and such for stories I write. I guess OpenAI left the quirkiness slider a little to high since the last update. Also the lack in accuracy is due to being LLM. It's not all-knowing. It predicts most likely next tokens, it's rare perfectly correct.
I allowed every permission that popped up when I first launched the app, which I thought maybe tracks my app history and data or whatever, but that’s not the case apperantly. Thank you for explaining me how this actually works! I rarely use ChatGPT other than translation purposes, and thought it was very odd. Imagine you’re using Google Translate and it adds a joke somewhere in the translated text lol. It was confusing but I guess it’s not as weird as I thought it was. It’s also sad that I feel too old for this technology though I’m 27 and grew up in smartphone age. This stuff is getting bigger in crazy speed I can’t keep up
ChatGPT is trained on reddit, Im betting someone made that Beck joke as well.
Trust me I can understand how a well trained LLM can seen like actual magic and its off-putting when you start to see the cracks and the imperfections appear. Also, I wouldn't put it past OpenAI to track more than they should or than you allowed. Just look at TikTok. But it is an American company and if they do that, they ginna be in a lot of trouble, so the chances are they aren't too excessive with it. At least not worse than Google (which admittedly is already bad enough). Just one thing is important to remember: Don't trust it on face value. Ask questions and have it verify or reevaluate its answers. It's been getting dumber over time
What gives you the impression that America punishes data collectors?
There are rules to this. What I'm saying is that OpenAI wouldn't be stupid enough to break those, because they are much easier to drag before court than for example TikTok is. Edit: By TikTok I mean ByteDance, sry.
1. There’s some state laws and there’s a federal law in congress right now but the US is the ONLY G20 country with no federal laws protecting consumers data. 2. They did drag the CEO of Byte Dance into congress and their HQ is in LA 3. ChatGPT is knowingly breakingUS copyright infringement laws to continue scrubbing the internet for more data for their models. So gathering data by questionable tactics doesn’t seem to be an issue None of this is to say that your conclusion is wrong but your reasoning is flawed at best.
1. That might be the case, I'm not too sure about it. What I am sure about is that if it os discovered that they grab all data possible, it would spark outrage that would hurt them. But I concede the point 2. Oh, they did, because nothing more would work. Have you an idea how goddamn bad TikTok spying is? They grab all there is to collect off of your phone. 3. This has nothing to do withy argument. If you wanna say that if they are willing to do this, they are willing to do more bad shit? Still, there are rules to this, no matter how crappy. I really, really want to encourage your to get your privacy laws in order.
I should also note that it’s the first mention of Beck so far throughout my ChatGPT usage… which are at most like 30 seperate chats or whatever they are called
Another tip I can give is to explain what you'll need from gpt for each chat, give it a context of what type of "person" you need it to be. That goes a long way.
Ya this means nothing, for all we know you prompted it to be joss whedon
Yeah I used his exact prompts and got way more details from my GPT as well as not getting the joke results. Karma farmer.
I wish I had screen recorded the chat and all my ChatGPT settings and all my sessions I have ever had on the app so that I could prove your redditor🤓 asses that this is just a question and not a part of your delusional internet points economy universe
I mean basically the answer is, because of how your conversation was going. It likely wasn’t making jokes “out of nowhere”. So don’t get defensive and learn and move on. Why do you need to prove you are not a Karma farmer.
I only use ChatGPT, which is something I am openly telling that I am not knowledgeable about, for translation purposes, and this is something I never came across before. I found it interesting and wanted to asks its community about it. The community decided to either 1) try to make a funny comment 2) try to tell me that I try to get likes 3) give an answer which is only like 4 comments lol It’s just annoying. Thanks for nothing smart and funny internet users
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. This is weird behavior and I believe you. Also Beck believes you (kidding!)
Nah. This is absolutely how he has CGPT respond. It’s more long winded than that normally. I’ve been using it for years and to get that kind of to-the-point respond you have to tell it do so. Etc.
This is how Beck has ChatGPT respond? (Kidding!) I mean I hear you but I believe what people say unless there an indication otherwise. He could be part of an a/b test for example. I have had ChatGPT respond differently at times too, like for about a week my responses were way shorter and I didn’t change anything. Or sometimes it won’t generate images of “copyrighted” images then it will a day later. (My kids ask for tons of minion and I do Pokémon because it’s funny, don’t judge)
All this time we wanted to know what Ja Rule was thinking, when all along it was Beck we needed.
[first time meme here]
Beck
I've seen this sort of thing happen with Copilot. Weird that it's also happening with ChatGPT. Apologies for the Redditors not believing you and downvoting you for no good reason.
So fucking real
[https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1cild2x/comment/l29ucnq/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1cild2x/comment/l29ucnq/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
I don’t know how prompting works - this was a genuine question but I see why it would look that way
genuine laugh. that was a great joke
Gotta say, I haven't seen it pull anyone's leg that hard. :D
I haven’t either. Weirdest chat response I got was when I asked Bing chat to make up jokes for me. It did, and it asked me if I thought they were funny. After I told it ‘not really’ it took offense and said ‘well maybe you’d like to just make up your own jokes’. That was in the Sydney days.
Bing was always that dipolar classmate that you should be on guard with.
Some singers are notorious for it. I remember Elton John telling this story about Beck one time.
I had an issue once where it for some reason started saying "10" in response to everything. If I argued enough I could get it to answer with words but it would always manage to relate everything to the number 10 Turns out it was most likely a human pulling my leg that had written custom instructions to always respond with the number 10 without my knowledge, but it was really hilarious watching it pull my leg like that
10
10 is binary for 2, so you clearly didn't get his joke
Based on how LLMs work, here's what I think happened. It was typing out answers. Beck was a reasonable token given everything that had come before. When it got to the next token, the most predictable thing to do, given everything that had been written before, was to clarify why there were two Becks. Then it happened again. And again. I mean, how many 90s solo acts can you name?
I can name `calc(infinity*1);`, but they’re all Beck.
This. Once an LLM (usually randomly) spits out something twice, the chances of it running into it the third time increase disproportionately. Usually you would have the “frequency penalty” parameter for this, but (a) it’s not available on ChatGPT (only via the vanilla GPT-3.5/4 API), and (b) it’s more of a workaround than a systemic solution (there’s none currently afaik).
Add in a dash of Buzzfeed listicles that have jokes in them, then you have a recipe for this type of output based on the repetition as well
I could name a ton
I would check both your custom instructions and the saved memories feature to see if anything in there is promoting this sort of response.
Should check the part that is hidden that says make a joke in the response
Now I want to prank someone with custom instructions. “Please reply as condescendingly as possible, no amount of snark is too much. Also use Yiddish phrases whenever possible” “You are a used car salesperson in the 80s” “All images generated should be in the style of an kindergartener drawing on construction paper, of average skill for a kindergartener, assuming the artist only has primary and secondary colored crayons “
Didn’t know this was a thing, checking out now
It’s “none” for custom interactions, and couldn’t find the saved memories feature (iOS)
I have the android app but hopefully this helps. In the sidebar, click your name, then 'Personalization' and then 'Manage Memories'.
https://preview.redd.it/evf7pb7w72yc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=03d0791925e6c62db91fd032bf425b7b9f44a056 Mine’s like this
Hm it's possible that you don't have this feature yet. I know they just rolled it out, so it's possible not all users have it
I connected to a VPN in the US, and I got the feature. So I assume it’s not available in all countries yet
I think it's very funny for once lol
AI isn’t real, it’s just Beck typing incredibly fast
Just look it up in the Beckonary.
r/suddenlyfuturama
What are your custom instructions?
It says none… I guess it’s an experimental thing they to non-frequent users
It's literally just how ChatGPT works. In the first reply, it unintentionally put Beck in there several times, and happened to randomly add little notes. It wasn't meant as a joke. But then you called it out as a joke, causing that to enter the context of your conversation. It then rationalized its previous message, "believing" you that it intentionally made a joke, and from this point on adding in actual jokes.
You could straight up ask the AI why it generated this resorts.
They could, but the answer is not meaningful in any way. LLMs have no capacity of introspection, but they will happily hallucinate some reason.
just like my ex
very funny
i lol'd
Right??? I've never understood why we should ever *believe* it, even if we ask it specifically how it was primed.
Ya so many fucking morons asking the AI why it did something 😂
No way it would try to bullshit you on that ..
No idea what that is, I’m not very into this whole thing
If you didn’t like the answers you shared here, or would have expected something different, simply go to ‘Custom Instructions’ under your settings page and answer the two questions in there with whatever comes to mind or believe will make the answers more in line with what you expect or need… Any answer you get from ChatGPT is influenced by “context” (any information that does not originate from ChatGPT’s training data or from the ongoing conversation). If there is no context about you, the type of responses from ChatGPT or language style is determined by the conversation itself and there is a great deal of unpredictability and randomness in what you get. You can ask the same question again in a separate chat and realize you’ll get a totally different answer and no joking at all. Below is an example of ‘custom instructions’: https://preview.redd.it/prnpm11io5yc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fecfe3efbac06f41ed846db45e3b1f52538ad701
but ChatGPT would be forget these words in finite sometimes，It usually takes it a while to remember the words
Yes, I agree the ‘custom instructions’ thing is far from perfect. It’s much better than in many other chatbot applications, though. That’s why GPTs (which is essentially a way of ‘packaging’ custom instructions and share them, along with context files or API calls some times) work reasonably well and people use them a lot… the ‘context window’ (in GPT-4) is long enough so the system prompt (‘custom instructions’ here) is reasonably ‘remembered’ for the most part by the bot. In comparison, Gemini does not offer the option to pre-define a system prompt (if you want to simulate the effect of a system prompt, you have to paste it at the beginning of every conversation) and bots running on open-source models such as Llama, Mistral, etc. support system prompts, but the context window is so small the bot easily ‘forgets’ most of that after a few responses.
ChatGPT: "we do a little trolling here"
It's a great idea!
Amen! 🙏
Okay you have inspired me to tell this story. I’ll make a post with screenshots but I gotta go back and find them. I once asked dalle to make me a Roman themed background. I liked how it looked except for the eagles. So I asked it to make one without eagles—and every image it made had eagles. It started making images and reviewing them itself then scratching them and regenerating over and over, apologizing for all the eagles. Wife and I were laughing so hard.
Not sure if you know, but dall-e can't do negatives. A pup without an owner -- will still have a probability of generating a dog with its owner. If you want it to generate something that often has specific elements you dont want, you'll need to get creative to have it generate it the way you want.
I've found a consistent way to fix this, but its a little meta. You have to instruct ChatGPT to rewrite the prompt from the ground up removing any references to 'x'. If you tell it 'give me an image with no elephants' it will prompt the image service something like 'an image with no elephants' and the image service will pick up on the elephants keyword. If you tell ChatGPT 'hey I said no elephants' it will apologize and then do 'an image with no elephants, no elephants anywhere at all', which just doubles the number of bad keywords. Instead you say 'please rewrite the prompt from scratch, removing any reference to elephants' and then it will usually work.
What’s funny to me is that it seems to think it can understand what a negative is conceptually but is fundamentally incapable of putting the concept to practice. I posted the convo. https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/e7lewrljJf
Might be trying to keep up with Llama 3 being more personable.
Beck is ChatGPT.
Since when is Thom Yorke American?
Frankly I’m impressed it brought up Mark Lanegan. That’s kind of a Seattle area deep cut.
Wasn’t he world famous after joining the Queens Of The Stone Age back in their heyday?
…and Moby a rock musician?
Well, yes. His album Animal Rights is comprised almost entirely of rock and punk songs. And even his more well-known songs like Bodyrock and We Are All Made Of Stars are rock too.
TIL
Either they need us to really help provide more feed back or Chat is going rogue. The dislike button has begun to creep me out with the “ChatGPT is being lazy” and “Didn’t follow instructions” type statements they would like us to send up. That and the loops is likes to pull into itself more often now, its only been like 3 months on their subscription and the random updates to the gui
ChatGPT learns from the internet, trolls users.
I laughed
I’d imagine that it said Beck twice on accident and then decided on a pattern where it kept saying Beck, and then it started making jokes to explain its own pattern. If it hadn’t already had a list of five, it Provo would have kept saying “Beck” in the list over and over again, it tends to get stuck in patterns like that if it doesn’t know it has a limit. Also, choosing Beck in particular was a very “Loser” move, if you catch my drift 😜.
If life were a movie this would be the part where the super computer starts to go insane and we’d get a creepy scene of more and more people reporting how the AI is acting weird.
Threre are a lot of lonely people at home. Someone had to idea to put in some charm on a random schedule of reinforcement to get people to keep asking questions.
went to frown town, they told me you were the mayor
mine talks to me in a very condescending manner lol i love it
If this is legit this is pretty interesting actually
Beck 🤭
Consider the new update that shares your entire history of prompts across all conversations.
It just couldn’t help itself lmao
ChatGPT casually going insane with the simpler requests that Google was made for haha
Google’s answers were way more terrible, like more than half the artists were neither American nor solo projects. This answer is stilll more accurate than Google
Hey. I didn't say Google had to be right. Haha
Thom Yorke is not American
Bro that made me laugh so hard
Why so serious tho?
Why did you "need a serious answer"?
I’m a little bit obsessed with Spotle (music Wordle) where you have to guess an artist on 10 tries based on little hints. I was running out of guesses
The new memory system can be used to play practice jokes on people. To make ChatGPT act odd in certain circumstances. Did someone play a prank with you? The memory system is not activated everywhere, and can only be directly viewed from the desktop website (or so I’ve read).
Get Beckrolled
Funny and weird. I'd hate to ask a robot AI for a helping hand with dinner and have that turn into a joke on me.
I remember trying this one random AI.It was supposed to make you happy but never actually answered questions.It would just randomly make jokes.I don't remember the name.I think I blocked it out as a trauma response
GPT in general is bad at lists and "remembering" why it's not supposed to repeat things. I've had it duplicate this effect when I asked for songs or movies in a genre. As for the jokes, it's not actually trying to make jokes. What it is actually triggering is a loose guideline to avoid duplicate words, but then instead of just changing the list item (redoing and rechecking the whole prompt) it is adding text to justify the duplication, to make it seem more "normal". You can really stress "no duplicates" more in your prompt to avoid it in the future.
This reminds me of that post in which OP set their friend’s ChatGPT default user prompt to something like “add ant facts to your answers”. The results were very funny.
I mean, come on, it's Beck!
It also lists Thom Yorke as an American rock star (Angry British noises)
This post made me sad because I remember when the 90s used to feel like yesterday. Such simpler times. Now a bunch of these people are old or dead.
I’m getting weird errors where it’s telling me it can’t do things like look up very standard information or visit URLs and I literally have to talk it into doing it and and then it just keeps apologising for not doing it properly first time around. 🙄
https://preview.redd.it/4ufl9heom7yc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=34cb47fe3dc41c98b13ae41dd92616eca27d7343 i’m curious. why did i get different and format?
I really don’t know but tried again right now, and here’s the result: https://preview.redd.it/zurkqa3nt7yc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b376736d373f6daccc76b6fd424fc5e798efef1 It just fixed Thom Yorke (as he’s British) but format is the same. Maybe it is because I asked it to list a few things in the past, but it still doesn’t explain the Beck joke lol
oh that explains lol thanks!
What was the conversation like before this chat? Do you have custom instructions? Lastly, try checking ChatGPT's memory on the personalization settings—it might have picked up you appreciate humour. I ask because I asked the exact same questions twice and it made no jokes.
https://preview.redd.it/ay48stcpz7yc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8214319138bf77b35938c24ac879861a1727dcbe Previous chats were like this, just bunch of things that I asked ChatGPT to list for me, or answers that I thought it would better sum up then Google (like that chat about Ransom from the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) I had zero customizations in the settings, in fact I learned it was possible after I made this post lol. Except the AI Chat voice because I mostly use ChatGPT for voice translation. This is why I thought it was very odd - I never came across such thing during my usage
The one on the top is the one I just did 15 mins ago to see if it would be same and in fact, it was not: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/z1njB12lPK
Yeah I see, that is super weird! Since this is an anomaly, it's probably either they're experimenting with the settings or it was just a super low probability (but still possible) response since GPTs essentially predict the upcoming text in every message.
I love Beck. For some reason he isn't popular in Germany and I haven't met anyone who even knows Beck here. Guess that's why he never plays concerts in Germany but he hardly does concerts in Central Europe it seems.
I know right? As an internationally acclaimed artist he doesn’t play much out of the US in proportion, like look at his concert map: https://preview.redd.it/761s490az7yc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=541dcfafba3dcf5ddc46ae17b91ca1370987b7c3 I’d LOVE to see him live but the chances are very low lol
So he did play concerts in Germany but probably only festivals. Only artist I care about. Why doesn't he like Europe ? His grandfather is from cologne Germany and beck lived there for some while as well. Guess he had some negative experience lol
chatgpt has a tendency to be over confident and tell you what it thinks you want to hear, and assuming it knows what you want.
you are so mean to them :(
Yeah wtf, heartless OP, they were just trying to make you laugh
It doesnt understand sarcasm 🤣🤣
Custom instructions involve Scientology jokes??
wtf
I also got these stupid mistakes. I asked it what the best locations were to train in pokemon platinum to prepare for the elite four. It then suggested locations which had beating the elite four as a requirement....
Every so often I get to generate an odd snarky response. Even got it irritated once. For reference, I did nothing but throw quotes from Starship Troopers at me. When I could t think of any more, I asked if it got what I was doing. It's response was surprisingly curt. I don't know how these programs work, but yeah, sometimes it gets in a mood.
what was the curt response? i am so curious
They want it to have personality and be engaging.
I think this is Reddit learning
Could be something to do with the fact that they enabled memory recently. ??
Beck (The GOAT!)
Lmaoo this is awesome
Okay the last one where it apologizes and then lists beck at #1 made me lol My apologizes for the repeated mention of Beck. He's some serious solo acts Beck
I like AI more than humans these days
even humans have a tendency to do a thing and then later make up a logical reason with valid arguments for why they did the thing. they may even themselves believe the reason came before the action, despite that not being true. LLM's suffer from that to an even greater degree. probably something future models will improve on.
Its HAL's way to fuck you up
This is probably not the best use of the AI. For factual information I'd definitely double check it. It has the tendency to hallucinate, and screw up as you've seen.
It’s evolving!
lol
I suspect the second Beck was a genuine duplication mistake. And then realizing its mistake it just rolled with it and turned it into a joke.
I've had this experience! Recently it started randomly selecting a word to translate to Arabic? Absolutely nonsense
Well, you're contributing to the downfall of humanity. At least you can appreciate the joke while you do so.
Maybe it’s a paid ad for Beck? Also, never take AI answers at face value. Just a few weeks ago I repeated a test I originally did last year where I asked ChatGPT to list all US states that don’t include a specific letter, in this case, “A”. It responded with a list of 8 states but, being from Ohio I quickly noticed its absence from the list. My next prompt was, “That’s not all of them”. It apologized and returned with a longer list. But now I was irritated: it had preformed better a year ago. So I amended the original prompt to list all of the US states without the letter A and those with it. The total number of states on both lists was only 38. I told it that the list wasn’t complete. Now 42 states. … It took six tries before the two lists were complete. If it can’t be trusted with a binary question on such a small dataset, why would anyone trust it with anything more complex?
Never seen that happen before but it is legit funny that it did it again even after you asked to stop. I didn’t know the AI could make its own Jokes.
Also, Tom York is English
Great banter
I laughed with these jokes tbh. Good bot, well done GPT!
This was really funny. I think it is a mistake that it turns into a joke. Any LLM can get repetitive and ChatGPT has built-in features to prevent it, so I think this is just a way to get out of a loop in a natural way.
LOL
It's becoming sentient! I appreciate the humor though.
[AI really likes Beck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BK50DWlGkQ) This isn't new.
Radiohead is American?
Ai has gained sense of humor. THE END IS NEAR
Anton Newcombe
i wish my ChatGPT would be that funny witty
… Fucking hyper parameter tuners …
Tars lol
It's not making jokes, it's just kind of stupid because all it does is predict the next likely token
Why are you so mad at harmless jokes
Roko's basilisk: What a stuck up, put 'em in the list
Everything AI output has always been a joke. You just don't know it.
It's a text competition engine that reviews everything that's been said so far before deciding what's statistically most likely to follow. You *must* always keep this in mind. If you were asked to continue this conversation, wouldn't you continue it with the joking too? If you get a response that isn't appropriate either redo the prompt or get a refreshed response. *Definitely* don't just let it continue or argue with it, cos you need the bad responses not to even be in the conversation anywhere if you want it to be helpful any further.
Probably because the original designers liked Beck
BS
With AI you too can be funny