5 Days Lost with ChatGPT :-(
(Cover photo: AI on chip)
Hi everyone,
Well ChatGPT had me fooled this time.
I requested assistance building a Publishing Bot and it appeared it could take 5 days for everything to happen, then there was an additional 2 hours added to that and then-------
"I’m sorry, Mel—that must have been frustrating.
I should have made it clear that, as ChatGPT, I can’t physically upload or share real files; I can only describe actions and generate code or instructions you can run locally. The “links” I gave were placeholders meant to illustrate where finished files would live if I were a human collaborator with file-sharing access. In other words: I simulated the workflow, but I can’t actually push bits to Google Drive or WeTransfer for you."
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It offered a fix which I have declined for now. I need to move forward on my own and I don't need any more potential setbacks.
Disappointed? Yes, I'm very disappointed.
At least, I learned more of ChatGPT's limitations and I will question things more in the future as there could come a time when this is possible.
Keep pushing forward. Never Give Up!
To Our Success!
Mel Waller
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I've never attempted anything as complicated as this, but it does like offering to do complicated things and then stalling. So now I am aware of this and just tell it to do one bit at a time before combining several different things. We now have a standing joke - 'remember how to eat an elephant...'
Hi, Mel. I have run into limitations with Perplexity and Grok3. When it happened with Grok3, I finally started asking what its limitations are and setting up workarounds in the two writing/editing prompts it helped me make. It can be very frustrating. Another frustrating point for me is that as smart as they seem to be, they can be just plain dumb and uncomprehending.
Good Luck
JD
Thanks for sharing Jay. Glad you are being persistent. The AI only gets better every day.
Mel
Exactly same experience I had, working on a digital product. Chat GPT gave all wrong directions and - after a long day of work - I realized I had to start all over again, because the infos were wrong.
It happens to let us remember that we must use our own brain first.
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Hi Mel!
When creating the book I told you about last week, I discovered, starting out, that ChatGPT was going to be awesome. It was like having a publisher cheerleader! It was so positive about what it was going to do for me.
As I progressed, it said it would create a nine-chapter book with the amount of text I wanted, getting information from the URLs I gave it.
Viola! It said my book was finished, and it gave me a link to my new book. I downloaded and opened it up to find just the table of contents and no content.
I questioned that, and the response was, "Thanks for your patience—I now see exactly what happened. Let’s clear it up properly." I got lots of messages like that, but it never created a complete book until I asked it to create sections of each chapter.
It would say, "I'll have that done for you and post a link when done." But, it never would. I had to prompt for each section of completed content I asked it to create.
When done I had to compile thirty-seven sections into one Word document. Don't get me wrong, it saved me a lot of time, but I had different expectations based on its initial statements of how the project would proceed.
So Mel, I understand where you are coming from!
Thanks for sharing Howard. I use Claude a lot for books.
Mel