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> The "prompt engineer" meme started with DallE and Stable Diffusion

I think it started before that, with GPT-3. As the original version wasn't trained as chatbot but just a pure text predictor, you'd sometimes have to do strange things to get the output you wanted from it. On the other hand it's way easier to get it to be mean to you (it may even do that on it's own) or get it to talk about illegal things




Very likely! I wasn't as involved in the space during GPT-3 so my first time encountering the phrase was after DallE launched.




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