AI Conversations

The somewhat quiet buz on the Internet is that version 5 of ChatGPT is not as good as version 4. Perhaps that is just what happened. Or perhaps it is just AI doing its thing. Please note that mine is a paid subscription, not just the freebie account. Two things of note follow:

1. ChatGPT has a very short memory of our conversations. I asked the AI to create a follow up story to my AI collaborative Grandpa Zooms series. However, it got all kinds of things wrong; like names, places, events, images, and our previous writing style. There was hardly any elaboration to my thorough input yet our previous version 4 conversations were replete with elaboration and nifty little tid-bits added in.
2. In exasperation, I totally wrote the episode from scratch using my trusty word processor. Then I fed the result to the AI and asked for its improvements specifically asking it to preserve my writing style. It absolutely bombed out and produced a much inferior story. It rewrote my pretty good story and turned it into a pretty bad story. The AI made certain that there were no plot twists or unexpected events. Nothing even remotely humorous remained and the rewrite was quite high on the so-what, boring scale. It is like the AI has a story template and cannot think enough to stray from its predefined script.

That said, here’s a link to the resulting audible story after ditching the AI version and using ChatGPT only to generate some images. (BTW, everyone but ChatGPT knows that fish don’t have eyelids.)