Comment by WhackyIdeas

3 years ago

You also notice the trickery going on?…

I asked it to help me code something. Then it stopped midway through, so I asked it to continue from the last line.

…It started from the beginning.

Now at the same point, I asked it not to stop. To keep going.

It started again from the beginning.

It went like this for about another 10 or so prompts. Hell, I even asked it to help me write a better prompt to ask it to continue from the line it cut off and I then used that. It didn’t work at all.

Then I ran out of prompts.

Three hours later, it did the same crap to me and I lost around 14 prompts to it being ‘stuck’ in an eternal loop.

Basically, OpenAI are sneaky devils. ‘Stuck’ my ass - that was intentional to free up resources.

or maybe you need to stop thinking everything is a conspiracy and realize bugs happen I've been using GPT everyday for the last 3 years, it never happened to me

  • Maybe you can take your “stop thinking everything is a conspiracy” quote to someone who thinks everything is a conspiracy… as in right back at yourself, conspiracy believer.

You can just send a single space character to get the AI to continue its previous output.

  • Oh, neat. Thanks for the tip. I usually say "Please continue," but sometimes it reiterates too much of what it stated previously. (I've tried "Please continue where you left off," and so far that has worked 1/1 times that I've tried it.)

  • I’ll try it. I have tried absolutely everything else, so may as well.

    Where did you read that? You’d think it would be there for people to read right next to the prompt.

    • It's emergent behavior, not something hardcoded into the model. Unfortunately, I don't remember where I read it originally...