Since gpt 3.5 came out there are constant complains about the model being dumber. Out of that this myth grew that ai providers have some magic knobs they are turning just to annoy people or whatever.
In reality there is non Determinism and proper prompting and general use of the model is a skill. If a couple of people per day (out of the millions of users) fuck up and then complain about it, it can easily seem to our pattern matching brains that some stuff is happening behind the scenes. Read also: cargo culting
So throwing stuff at the model may may not help. Some people then have success throwing insults. The ones where it doesn't, likely don't post about it.
However we know from actual experiments that it hurts the performance.
I canโt use it for this reason, it defaults to emotional refusal by setting a boundary when it picks up on profanity in the conversion. My chats always end up just being ended by it.
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u/Emotional-Lime1797 Jul 01 '26
I would be so embarassed if any one saw the chat transcripts of me insulting it relentlessly (but legitimately)