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Have you tried the free version of ChatGPT? It is positively appalling. It’s like GPT 3.5 but prompted to write three times as much as necessary to seem useful. I wonder how many people have embarrassed themselves, lost their jobs, and been critically misinformed. All easy with state-of-the-art models but seemingly a guarantee with the bottom sub-slop tier.
Is the average person just talking to it about their day or something?
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Even the paid version of ChatGPT tends to use a 1000 words when 10 will do.
You can try asking it the same question as Claude and compare the answers. I can guarantee you that the ChatGPT answer won't fit on a single screen on a 32" 4k monitor.
Claude's will.
If someone blindly submits chatbot output they deserve to be embarrassed and fired. But I don't think that's going to improve.
The free version of ChatGPT is insanely crippled, so that's not surprising.
I use the free version of ChatGPT (without logging in) when I need some one-off question without a huge context. Real world prompt:
It works fine, avoids falling into trap due to misleading question. Probably works even better for more popular technologies. Yeah, it has higher failure rates but it's not a dealbreaker for non-autonomous use cases.