By skyforbes What is worse is how people keep treating the bot like it is a real person. I understand that users do what they want, but we cannot lose sight of the reality that this is a probabilistic engine. It is simply calculating the best statistical prediction for the next word based on your prompt and its underlying directive to be helpful. It's a tool.
It is also exhausting to see these overly complex, ritualistic prompt structures people share, full of weird delimiters and pseudo-code. They sell them as magic spells that guarantee a specific result, completely ignoring that the model’s output is heavily influenced by individual user context and history. It is a text interpreter, not a strict code compiler, and pretending that a specific syntax will override its probabilistic nature every single time is just another form of misunderstanding the tool. We desperately need more awareness regarding how these models actually function.