The recent flap over ChatGPT's fluffery/flattery/glazing of users doesn't bode well for the direction that OpenAI is headed in. Someone at the outfit appeared to think that giving users a dopamine hit would increase time-spent-on-app or some other metric - and that smells like contempt for the intelligence of the user base and a manipulative approach designed not to improve the quality of the output, but to addict the user population to the ChatGPT experience. Your own personal yes-person to praise everything you do, how wonderful. Perfect for writing the scripts for government cabinent ministers to recite when the grand poobah-in-chief comes calling, I suppose.
What it really says is that if a user wants to control the interaction and get the useful responses, direct programmatic calls to the API that control the system prompt are going to be needed. And who knows how much longer even that will be allowed? As ChatGPT reports,
> "OpenAI has updated the ChatGPT UI (especially in GPT-4-turbo and ChatGPT Plus environments) to no longer expose the full system prompt or baseline prompt directly."
What it really says is that if a user wants to control the interaction and get the useful responses, direct programmatic calls to the API that control the system prompt are going to be needed. And who knows how much longer even that will be allowed? As ChatGPT reports,
> "OpenAI has updated the ChatGPT UI (especially in GPT-4-turbo and ChatGPT Plus environments) to no longer expose the full system prompt or baseline prompt directly."