Weirdest AI experience yet. I was having trouble getting gpt to cut out individual comic panels for me, which had worked fine prior to the sept 25 update. Finally I said "write a protocol for how to get you to do this, then use your own protocol." did it just fine.
@ZachWeinersmith Okay, that's weird. But also because of my Mastodon client's font, I thought at first you were going to describe having the quintessential Alfred Yankovic experience.
@ZachWeinersmith Did Al write a parody song explaining how he pulled it off?

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OK now do 'Write an AI that can write better AI's than you'.

You will be held personally responsible for the end of the human race.

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"Weirdest AI experience yet."

I read that as Weirdest AL experience, as in something related to Weird Al Yankovic, but weird enough to call it Weirdest Al.

@ZachWeinersmith "...for the day had long since passed, Zee Prime knew, when any man had any part of the making of a Universal AC. Each Universal AC designed and constructed its successor. Each, during its existence of a million years or more accumulated the necessary data to build a better and more intricate, more capable successor in which its own store of data and individuality would be submerged." (Asimov, "The Last Question")

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I guess the "prompt engineer" career has an even shorter shelf life than expected.

@ZachWeinersmith Weird Al, Weirder Al, Weirdest Al
@ZachWeinersmith remember though that no matter what set of if-then statements you give it the network is always doing the same thing - predicting the next word/token.
I wouldn't say that it used that protocol, which made it work. I would say that the most likely tokens to follow those instructions are ones that happened to work. This may also be a bit of bias if you stopped trying to get it to work as soon as it worked.
@ZachWeinersmith I read this as (caps for legibility) "Weirdest AL experience yet", and I expected your story to be about Al Yankovic one-upsmanship.