This isn’t asking for nothing though. It’s asking for a very specific uniform thing. A better analogy to text generation would be asking for an uninterrupted string of nothing but repeated uppercase A’s.
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ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I don’t know much about image generators, but it’s not surprising to me at all that ChatGPT can’t fulfill this request. Your prompt gets converted into tokens, tokens get processed by the model, it outputs a resulting set of tokens, and those get converted into text. Expecting the token-outputting-machine not to output any tokens is going to lead to disappointment.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 2 months ago
That’s a really good way to break chatgpt BTW. Just ask it to repeat something over and over again it will create very interesting results.
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The “asking for nothing” experiment is from later in the article, where they try with ChatGPT.
wischi@programming.dev 2 months ago
But that’s not the full picture. There is a token to end the response, so the LLM decides when the answer is over. So it’s technically possible for ChatGPT to answer with “nothing” by just emitting a single token, namely the “end-answer” token.