I asked it about how to use etc with three dots in an example followed by a brand new sentence starting with a capital letter afterward.

It told me : / In standard usage, “etc.” is typically followed by three dots and then continues with a lowercase letter. If you are starting a new sentence, you do not add additional dots after “etc.” /

Then I begged it to give me an example of that rule. One such as:
I love swimming, soccer, etc… I also love eating animals.

And it just couldn’t do that. It kept typing 4 dots or single dot or no dots at all, and it can’t even recognize what it typed every single time. Lol try it yourself

  • @[email protected]
    6•10 months ago

    Something I have noticed in GPT 3.5 is that it seems something on the site itself, not necessarily GPT’s output, changes the text that GPT provides. I had an issue where I asked it for the links to websites it was sourcing. I could see a longer URL pop up for just a second before it got shortened to underlined blue text which was not a link. I asked it multiple times in multiple ways to give me tbe URL again. It happened multiple times where the URL showed up for just a second before getting converted to weird, non-URL format.

    I finally got the URLs it was trying to provide when I told it, “Please provide the raw HTML of your most recent response.” Then I looked at the “a href” sections and found the URLs it had been trying to provide.

    I wonder if the site itself and not GPT is changing three or more consecutive periods to one as well as some of the other issues you have reported.