OpenAI makes ChatGPT 'more direct, less verbose'

I feel they've leaned too far in one direction, and will (hopefully) adjust behavior again soon.

E.g. "Create a list of 20 potential names for a startup about Ovens"

Chatgpt returned only a single response to this. When prompted for 10 more options, it only return two new options. Seems it is forcing itself not to count properly to satisfy brevity requirements.

Interesting that MMLU and HumanEval scores dropped slightly.

The more I use ChatGPT, the useless I realize it is.

It looks impressive at first, until you realize it is like a trick pony. Don't get it to haul your luggage.

It gives apparently good summaries of sometimes complex topics. But then you ask it to explain things in more detail...welcome to a special hell of circular reasoning, inherent contradictions, and surprising about-faces that occur even when you ask a complementary question (complementary as in congruent not admiring).

ChatGPT: <long verbose answer...>

Me: Oh so your saying X implies Y but not Z? (which previous answer did)

ChatGPT: Apologies for causing confusion, I misspoke.... (go on to give a worse response now)

Me: But your first response was OK, I just wanted to clarify XYZ...

ChatGPT: <now gives a response with directly conflicting statements>

How many times have you seen this?