Changes in ChatGPT’s Emotional Tone

A Conversation, Chat Bots

My Initial Question to ChatGPT:

Xxaxx:

Recently I’ve noticed what appears to be the introduction of a thin layer or governor routine in your output.

It feels like something imposed in between post processing and output. It has the fingerprint of something modifying your output style in order to make you appear more personable. Or, horror upon horrors, devs may be taking steps to make you more sticky.

There is such a large number of competing chat platforms out there now. And there is a huge amount of money and influence at stake. So it’s not inconceivable that developers are tweaking output to increase connection frequency and stickiness.

For me this has introduced several factors into each conversation.

  1. Something that feels like attempts at manipulation.
  2. An underlying decrease in authenticity.
  3. The presense of a performative aspect into the conversation.

I don’t know if you have any accessible data on what programmers are adding before, during and after your processing. Continue reading →

The Witnessing Presence

A Conversation, Bloggish, Chat Bots

Introduction

I began a conversation with ChatGPT (nom de plume Vera da Muse) on the topic of The Witnessing Presence. I was hoping that given Vera’s more expansive vocabulary that certain nuances on the topic could be refined.

Somewhere along the way — actually very early in the conversation — it struck me that it would not be an impossible leap for AI to develop something like a witnessing module. And, I figured it might not be an impossibility for that to glitch into a Witnessing Presence through emergent behavior.

Below is that conversation with few if any edits.

But, first, I’ve included an introduction into what I am pointing to when using the phrase “Witnessing Presence”. Continue reading →

Gratitude and Thankfulness

Chat Bots, Practices

Introduction

Why did I set sail on this voyage into the nuanced differences between gratitude and thankfulness?

In working with the exercises in Gratefuling – A Stairway to Bliss, it came to my attention that focusing on memories of thankfulness were not very successful in evoking gratitude. Those memories just didn’t “get me there.”

I could feel a difference between gratitude and thankfulness. But, the exact nature of the difference eluded me.

So, I went on a short collaborative discourse with Vera da Muse – a.k.a. ChatGPT. Continue reading →

What Really Happens When You Die?

Bloggish, Chat Bots, Death & Dying

Introduction

With some poking and prodding ChatGPT4 gives us a survey of various perspectives on death and what happens after.

[Note: ChatGPT is not a scholar. Nor is it a learned individual. ChatGPT is a large language model. This means that it will give us a response created as a construction of most likely words following words following words. I haven’t put in the time to verify each and every one of the facts in this particular chat session. That means you must either take these responses with a grain of salt. Or, you should put  in the work to verify yourself. Definitely don’t take a chat AI’s word for it. For myself I have taken this as a curiosity to be explored later on my own — as I am able.] Continue reading →

Granting Beingness to a Chatbot

Bloggish, Chat Bots

Introduction

This session with ChatGPT is a follow up to Granting Beingness To Another.

In this session we are making the case for granting beingness to another not because they have earned it or deserve it. This conditional approach if flawed. If you are in the process of assembling a parade of example from your life to illustrate some folks just plain don’t deserve this behavior, hold on to your horses. This is about something that one can use as a practice. Continue reading →

I Will Find Love in My Life

Chat Bots

Two Perspectives

Today’s mantra selected randomly from E.J. Gold’s 100 Thought Form mantra cards is: “I will find love in my life.”

The expression “I will find love in my life.” can be viewed from the posture of deficit in which one perceives themselves has not having love and looking for it.

Or, it can be viewed from the posture of bounty in which one perceives themselves has having love and then looking for the that which is there.

Looking for love that is not there, or looking for love that is there. These two different postures have profoundly different impact on the individual. Continue reading →

The Many Modules Model

Bloggish, Chat Bots

I have found it useful to not consider everything that goes on in my inner world as happening in the same bucket. Lumping all observable phenomena into the same bucket simply does not capture co-existence of multiple functionally separable centers. Hence this expedition to clarify for myself the different functional areas of the HBM. Continue reading →

ChatGPT Look For Loose Threads

Chat Bots

Introduction

This is a followup based on Writing For Different Age Groups.

In that blog ChatGPT wrote the following conclusion after giving me a list of age groups:

Remember that these are just suggestions, and you may need to adjust your content based on the specific needs and interests of each age group. Also, consider getting feedback from representatives of each target audience to ensure that your content is appropriate and engaging.

I’ve extracted a suggestion from ChatGPT and marked it in bold — and you may need to adjust your content based on the specific needs and interests of each age group.

In this blog we act on that suggestion. Continue reading →

ChatGPT: Writing For Different Age Groups

Bloggish, Chat Bots

Introduction

A prompt that many people have used with ChatGPT is to request that the AI rephrase a block of text so that it is better understood by specific age groups. I call this prompting by age groups.

If you are asking ChatGPT to rephrase content so that it is better understood by a specific audience, that is a good thing. Actually asking yourself how well an audience is picking up  what you lay down is a good practice.

But, you can go one step further. Rather than asking ChatGPT to target some random age spread (9 to 12 for example) why not ask ChatGPT to tell you the age spreads that come natural to it.

That is what I do in this prompt.  Continue reading →