The Most Important ChatGPT Prompt
I‘ve read dozens of articles about “the best ChatGPT prompts,” but I’ve never seen the most effective one…
When I first introduced my brother to the wonders of ChatGPT, it took him less than five minutes to say, “This thing is dumb and useless.”
This happened about eight months ago. I remember he asked GPT to write him a lab report from scratch, and I assured him it would do an excellent job. He put in the lab instructions, the report questions, and his experimental data.
The lab report output by ChatGPT, to put it nicely, was hot garbage. The report was riddled with loosely connected sections, rife with hallucinations, and packed with hamfisted data stuffing. The report was entirely unusable from the outset to the point where it wasn’t even worth prompting for another one.
At that moment, my brother immediately lost all faith in ChatGPT, and he went back to writing manually. I had to admit, I was disappointed in it as well.
A contextual realization
I reflected on this experience, and I wondered why it faired so poorly when I assured him it wouldn’t. I thought about all the times I had great success with GPT, and I suddenly had a realization. ChatGPT thrives on information.
