JFjfk13·Mar 2, 2023
In Show HN: ChatGPT-powered dystopia simulatorbaobabKoodaa
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A dystopia simulator powered by ChatGPT
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| Dec 26 | 2022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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| Feb 27 | 2023-02-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-03-06 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
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5 sourcesThought perhaps this was ChatGPT reflecting some kind of ambient Western paranoia about being taken over by China, but then I read the prompts: https://github.com/baobabKoodaa/future/blob/master/prompt-qa...
In Show HN: ChatGPT-powered dystopia simulatorShow HN: ChatGPT-powered dystopia simulator
OP here. This comment contains SPOILERS so try the dystopia simulator first before reading further!
I built "WeChatGPT+" in December on top of GPT-3. It was pretty surreal when OpenAI released an actual product named "ChatGPT Plus" a few months after that. Then the Microsoft partnership was announced, Bing AI was released, and marketing materials were leaked indicating that Bing AI would start including advertisements within the chat responses. Reality imitates fiction, I guess.
Today - literally a few hours ago - OpenAI announced public ChatGPT API with 10% the cost of GPT-3. I immediately migrated. Took about an hour to re-tune the prompt for a different model. I wouldn't have been able to afford serving this over the GPT-3 API because it costs so much (I'd kept the server disabled for more than a month). Should be much more affordable
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now. Also some of the responses seem wittier and funnier.
Prompt generation and other source code available here: https://github.com/baobabKoodaa/future/blob/master/server.js...
Let me know how you feel about this! :)
> When you say "fine tune" here what are you looking to do?
As an example of fine tuning, I might take a pretrained model and then continue training it with a custom dataset that is tailored to a specific text generation task (not classification). Here is an example of a custom dataset that I might fine tune on:
https://github.com/baobabKoodaa/future/blob/8d2ae91e6a6f00c7...
I would like the LLM to generate fictional text in the same style as the fine tuned dataset.
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