OpenAI makes ChatGPT ‘less verbose’, blurring the writer-AI distinction

OpenAI has unveiled an improved version of GPT-4 Turbo among the models powering the conversational ChatGPT experience.

This improved version of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool allows for more natural conversations. This updated version is now available to premium users subscribed to ChatGPT Plus, Group or Enterprise plans.

OpenAI says its latest model “gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09” boasts improvements in text, math, logic and coding along with an updated knowledge base.

The last update was trained on publicly accessible data until December 2023. The previous edition could only draw on material up to April 2023. In a post on X, OpenAI wrote:

When writing with ChatGPT [with the new GPT-4 Turbo]responses are more direct, less wordy and use more colloquial language.

However, this update may exacerbate the ongoing challenge of AI-like writers, even if they write the articles themselves.

On April 7, Paul Graham, founder of the influential startup accelerator Y Combinator, concluded that emails including the word “delve” should be written with the help of AI.

Graham argued that the word was not commonly used in everyday speech, but countered that many Africans—mostly Nigerians—used the word frequently. The discussion turned to how people from different parts of the world use English vocabulary in different ways.

Graham's post suggests that writers who speak English as a second language may lose their jobs because their work is perceived to be too similar to AI-generated content.

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The update follows the launch of new models in OpenAI's API on April 10, including image recognition features including GPT-4 Turbo with Vision.

According to documentation on its website, AI developer OpenAI has quietly updated the training data set for GPT-4 Turbo as of December 2023.

The update was implemented with the intention of reducing what developers call “laziness” in the model of not completing requested tasks.

OpenAI also removed the requirement for users to create an account to access ChatGPT-3.5, the widely used generative AI tool. The company announced on April 1 that it would no longer require ChatGPT users to register to make it “easier to experience the power of AI.” However, users without an account cannot store their previous interaction history.

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