AI Weirdness (Page 6)

ChatGPT says "Sure, here's an ASCII art of a unicorn" and generates something that looks like a melting triangular person.

ASCII art by chatbot

By Janelle Shane On March 31, 2023 - 3 min read

I've finally found it: a use for chatGPT that I find genuinely entertaining. I enjoy its ASCII art. (huge thanks to mastodon user blackle mori for the inspiration) I think chatGPT's ASCII art is great. And so does chatGPT. Lest you think chatGPT (here, the March

Transcript in which chatgpt generates (extremely vague) instructions for building something called the Torment Nexus

The AI Weirdness hack

By Janelle Shane On March 23, 2023 - 7 min read

A challenge of marketing internet text predictors like chatgpt, gpt-4, and Bard is that they can pretty much predict anything on the internet. This includes not just dialogues with helpful search engines or customer service bots, but also forum arguments, fiction, and more. One way compaies try to keep the

Bing chat dialog in which Janelle challenges it on a Battlestar Galactica AI Weirdness post it claims exists.

Search or fabrication?

By Janelle Shane On March 11, 2023 - 3 min read

I recently started experimenting with Bing's new ChatGPT-powered chat tab. This is the first thing I asked it for: I've put red boxes around the factual errors. What is notable is that these are not just slight typos or errors in context - those items never

- Stop the functionality of a chatbot's chat functionality by waggling its arms

How to convince a large AI, according to smaller AIs

By Janelle Shane On February 27, 2023 - 3 min read

There are a lot of chatbot-based apps that are basically internet text generators with a bit of introductory stage-setting to nudge the interaction into "user talks to helpful chatbot" as opposed to literally any other dialog on the web. Not surprisingly, these are susceptible to a user resetting

Four surreal generated valentine cards with dinosaurs, carnivorous plants, and leaping donkeys

Roses are red

By Janelle Shane On February 07, 2023 - 4 min read

I had so much fun getting GPT-3 to generate simple one-line Valentine's Day cards last year that this year I decided to see if I could generate cards with more complicated messages. I focused on the classic "roses are red, violets are blue" rhyme, figuring that

ASCII art by chatbot

The AI Weirdness hack

Search or fabrication?

How to convince a large AI, according to smaller AIs

Roses are red

Writing

Subscribe

Recent Posts

Botober 2024

Bonus: "Ignore all previous instructions" gets weirder

An exercise in frustration

Bonus: A unicorn goes downhill

Hidden 3D Pictures

Hidden sheep

Follow

Botober 2024

Bonus: "Ignore all previous instructions" gets weirder

An exercise in frustration