> I predict by the end of the year they'll have a style/voice selector for responses.

Why would they add it now? This has been a solved problem since GPT3.5, just prompt it to write in a different style and/or never use specific phrases.

The reality is that for 99% of people and use cases, they just do not fucking care. They're either using chatgpt as a 1:1 chat interface where the AI style is fine, or they're sending off homework/generating reports to send to their boss/etc, which they know will never be read and just summarized by an AI anyway, so what's the point.

Bold of you to predict future existence of functionality that already exists

Wrapper app startups designed to tune the tone of a model are all over; virtual romance partners, creative writers/editorial help...

We all started out with prompts like "you are an expert in X" before dumping them in agents which you pointed out already solves your problem

What you describe is already implemented in various ways

The most difficult thing in doing it yourself is knowing what to ask for. I can ask my model to talk like a caveman or like a Baltic pirate. But asking for something more nuanced, in the range of regular speech, requires the correct lingo

I'm sure it's trivial for somebody who has studied communication or contemporary linguistics, just as it's trivial for me to ask an LLM for tenant-isolation using row-level security in an app

Trouble is, it’s still the same model, just with a request to sound different. It can only go so far. It’s much like asking an author to imitate the style of another author. They might do a decent job of it but they’ll never match perfectly. And that’s for humans who can actually learn. LLMs can’t.

Why would one leave writing to the clanker though, given that expression is literally the only thing worth doing as a human?

They're supposed to do the grunt work, but the meaning and the connection is a humans-only thing.

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