I think they should use a different name altogether for chatGPT 4 as it is very different and superior to 3.5. And when people say chatGPT doesn't work for me, I would like to know which one they tried.
I was chatting with someone I know that has a paid subscription for ChatGPT 4. I was venting about the hallucinations I was getting for a certain problem; they mentioned how much better v4 is, and proceeded to plug my prompt into it. The answer it gave was actually a more blatant lie compared to the responses I got from v3.5.
I've been seeing this "try ChatGPT 4" advice all over HN. I am using 4, and it still hallucinates and generates quite useless code. It's only marginally better in my experience.
Certainly, but GPT3.5 is effectively free via the API, especially considering you have to hit $5 or whatever to even be as expensive as ChatGPT (and it's even relatively difficult to rack up a high bill on GPT4 now that they have token rate limits). The problem of general and global access to unrestricted LLMs is a very, very serious question, but here it's largely a question of engineers and, since it's relatively difficult to spend more than a Netflix subscription via the API, I'm assuming this is conceivably in budget.
Based on my own attempts to have ChatGPT generate code for me, it's better to NOT trust it. It tends to hilucinate even with simple requirements.