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> No, we haven't made GPT-4 dumber. Quite the opposite: we make each new version smarter than the previous one. > Current hypothesis: When you use it more heavily, you start noticing issues you didn't see before.

I don’t see how it supports your argument. Your comment says “they deny making changes to GPT-4”, and the tweet says “we are making incremental improvements to GPT-4”.

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It's important to read company marketing statements as if you were a lawyer. We haven't made GPT-4 dumber != We haven't made ChatGPT(4) dumber.

Personal hypothesis is that they have made a few changes to ChatGPT recently - possibly quantization, and almost certainly some tweaks to make it give shorter/less detailed answers.

But by the nature of a probibalistic tool being run by a secretive company, it's hard to say for sure. Maybe I and everyone else complaining have just started to get unlucky answers.

They're also going to claim "that's alignment, we're making it less evil, not dumber"

Same experience for me. Very unlucky answers now.

I did not say that they deny making changes. I said that they denied changes in capabilities; implied, in this context, is changes for the worse, since changes for the better should not affect people's experiences negatively.

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