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For work I'm playing around with

2025-02-19 19:10:03.459504+01 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

For work I'm playing around with hierarchical summarization techniques and ChatGPT4-o, and it's kind of astounding how different the output from separate runs with the same input text can be.

Like bullet points that are present in one query completely disappear on the second query, and of course the prioritization of such things is always very different.

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#Comment Re: For work I'm playing around with made: 2025-02-19 19:56:08.312632+01 by: Dan Lyke

Copied over from the Mastodon conversation. re "then there’s the difference in answers and detail between paid and free versions.…"

I'm using the paid-for API for this stuff, so I'm not sure what all they'd be doing there.

Though the office response to the $200/month product on questions that we know some of the answers to is "there's no way it's actually doing the research it claims to be doing, because these other things qualify".

So, yeah, it's levels of credibility in bullshit generation, with the additional observation that we are more vested in believing something is not bullshit when we pay more for it.

LLM tiers are the audiophilia of the 2020s.

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