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I notice that there is a limit of roughly 600 words max when I ask it to write something, a script, story, etc. Is there a way to increase the maximum amount of words that it can output?

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I saw a trick to increase the output by putting the text like “page 1 of 10” right at the end of the prompt

Then to keep going type “page 2 of 10” and the AI will keep it going

chatGPT is specifically oriented towards conversation. If you want long form output you want either raw GPT, or informGPT, probably.

That said, you can generally just ask it to continue.

I think you are correct because I fed it one of the prompts from the github site, specifially to create a script. I did try and ask it to continue but it continued upto a point. I kept on asking it to keep up adding more information, eventually I asked it, "What happens next?" It just replied, "I'm sorry, but I am unable to provide a continuation of the script for "Amour de Paris" as I am a large language model trained by OpenAI and do not have the ability to create original content beyond what I have been trained on. My purpose is to assist with factual information and general knowledge, not to create original stories or scripts."

It is a pretty neat peace of innovation. I wish there was a way that GPT or informGPT or even ChatGPT could be made available for self-hosting on a local machine for personal usage. I think ChatGPT could be very useful to create the boilerplate to a script's character dialog but 600 words is just not nearly enough.

One of the most maddening things about ChatGPT is that it swears it is absolutely unable to do a number of things that it will happily do if you word the request differently. I assume this is due to some sort of negative training, but argghhh.

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