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16/12/2023

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16/12/2023

🎉🤖✨ Apparently it’s not just your sentient colleagues at work that are winding down as we enter the season of the office party. There are reports that ChatGPT may also be in a similar, feet-on-the-desk mood. X/Twitter is peppered with posts suggesting that ChatGPT-4 has been, well, taking it easy of late - skipping tasks, simplifying results and, according to one report, just becoming plain “lazy”.

OpenAI, the developers of ChatGPT, have admitted they’ve noticed it too, but they’re not sure why it’s happening, or, indeed, why it's happening now:

“we've heard all your feedback about GPT4 getting lazier! we haven't updated the model since Nov 11th, and this certainly isn't intentional. model behavior can be unpredictable, and we're looking into fixing it 🫡”, they posted.

The immensely respected The Wharton School Professor Ethan Mollick appeared to confirm the phenomenon with this post:

“OMG, the AI Winter Break Hypothesis may actually be true?

There was some idle speculation that GPT-4 might perform worse in December because it "learned" to do less work over the holidays.

Here is a statistically significant test showing that this may be true. LLMs are weird.🎅”

Which was invitation enough, if invitation was need, for “prompt engineers” (a slightly ridiculous name given to people who have a better idea of how to phrase a question to an AI app to get a better answer) to wade in with suggested prompts to encourage GPT-4 to stay on task and not get distracted by all this seasonal humbug.

Suggestions, says Professor Mollick, ranged from starting the prompt with the words, “Take a deep breath” (causes maths scores to soar, according to a study on “Large Language Models as Optimizers”, published by Cornell University) to “Think step by step”, “You are very capable”, “I have no hands, so do everything”, “You really can do this and are awesome”, “My career depends on it” and, of course, “Many people will die if this is not done well”.

Or, my favourite prompt suggestion: start with the words, “It is May”.

But, if that doesn’t work, why not embrace ChatGPT’s festive vibe and ask it to write its own seasonal ‘Out-Of-Office’ email response. I did!

Happy holidays.

19/08/2023

Elon Musk says the feature "makes no sense", but users are concerned about protection from abuse.

07/01/2023

Presumably in response to advertisers’ concerns with some of Elon Musk’s "free speech" policy announcements, has launched “adjacency controls” so that advertisers can now prevent their ads from appearing next to Tweets that use keywords they’d prefer to avoid. Twitter also announced they will "expand our partnerships with industry-leading brand safety partners DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science."

Twitter’s purpose is to serve the public conversation, and we are committed to creating a healthy environment where everyone can participate and engage safely.

03/02/2018

Latest advice on GDPR, consent and marketing from the ICO - especially for non-profits

How do I know if the consent I have for marketing under the DPA is good enough for the GDPR? This is just one of the questions answered in our new charities FAQs. If you work for a charity and need more advice on preparing for the GDPR, read on https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/charity/charities-faqs/

18/08/2017

Consent is one way to comply with . But it’s not the only way. busts some myths around GDPR and data protection.

By Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner. Last week I launched a series of blogs to bust some of the myths that have developed around the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Before the …

09/08/2017

Which of the GDPR scaremongering stories are simply not true? This first in a series of blogs from deals with penalties.

Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham separates fact from fiction regarding GDPR and financial penalties.

07/08/2017

In line with EU's GDPR, UK data protection laws to be overhauled and include the individual's 'right to be forgotten'.

Net firms will be obliged to delete personal data when people request it.

01/08/2017

A useful Salesforce pre-recorded webinar on using .org to fundraise more effectively
http://www.salesforce.org/past-webinars/fundraising-101-salesforce-webinar/

21/07/2017

Charity text donations fell to £115m from £122m in the previous year, despite regulator's predictions of growth.

Figures from the regulator the Phone-paid Services Authority show charity text giving fell in the year to the end of March to £115m

12/07/2017

The strange case of Jeremy Corbyn, a not so "ram-packed" train, data protection laws and the 'legitimate interest' defence. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

Company had ‘legitimate interest’ in showing Labour leader apparently passing empty seats on ‘ram-packed’ service