ChatGPT ain't all that

StarGeek · February 05, 2023, 03:22:12 PM

I was trying to remember when PNG started supporting EXIF data, so I decided to ask ChatGPT

Apparently, ChatGPT doesn't read wikipedia.

Phil Harvey · February 05, 2023, 06:26:16 PM

ChatGPT's source database may be out of date.

I wanted to try ChatGPT myself, but it required giving them my phone number for verification, which I won't do.

- Phil

blue-j · February 06, 2023, 01:39:06 AM

I have been utterly astounded personally. I have had in-depth discussions of photography, philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology, how to survive a nuclear blast, how to start dating again after becoming a widower, and more. On every single topic, GPT 3.5 has been wiser than more humans, and had 100% accuracy on photography questions.

- J

blue-j · February 06, 2023, 01:44:22 AM

Quote from: Phil Harvey on February 05, 2023, 06:26:16 PMChatGPT's source database may be out of date.

I just chatted with it, and it came around:

QuoteME: July 2017 is the correct answer. It was published in the specification for PNG version 1.2 extensions. https://ftp-osl.osuosl.org/pub/libpng/documents/pngext-1.5.0.html#C.eXIf

ChatGPT: I apologize, you are correct. The PNG specification was extended in July 2017 to allow for the embedding of EXIF metadata in PNG files. Thank you for correcting my previous answer.

blue-j · February 06, 2023, 01:45:39 AM

It looks like it learned. Can you ask again?

ME: When did the PNG image format get support for EXIF metadata?

ChatGPT: The PNG image format was extended in July 2017 to allow for the embedding of EXIF metadata in PNG files.

greybeard · February 06, 2023, 08:01:06 AM

Quote from: blue-j on February 06, 2023, 01:45:39 AMIt looks like it learned. Can you ask again?

ME: When did the PNG image format get support for EXIF metadata?

ChatGPT: The PNG image format was extended in July 2017 to allow for the embedding of EXIF metadata in PNG files.

Me: When did the PNG image format get support for EXIF metadata?

ChatGPT: The PNG image format first began supporting EXIF metadata in 2004.

(Technically this was using the playground as ChatGPT was at capacity)

StarGeek · February 06, 2023, 10:31:23 AM

Quote from: blue-j on February 06, 2023, 01:44:22 AMI just chatted with it, and it came around:

Cool.

This was just my attempt at sardonic humor, as I see ChatGPT mentioned more and more in my feeds.

blue-j · February 07, 2023, 01:39:34 PM

Yeah, it's wrong everywhere now - Playground or ChatGPT. It seems it can be corrected only within a session for now? - J

greybeard · February 08, 2023, 02:43:46 AM

I asked it to create Swift code to extract EXIF metadata from images in the Apple Photos library - it wrote nice elegant code (but it would never actually work)

blue-j · March 17, 2023, 04:57:08 PM

I would say the same as you about GPT-3.5... which must be what you used, as 4 was not out at the date of your post. But GPT-4 is delivering Python performing complex image operations... and the code normally works!! Woot! - J

StarGeek · March 18, 2023, 01:04:31 AM

Behold the power of ChatGPT 4

I will admit, this isn't my question, though I did copy/paste it to grab the graphic.

StarGeek · March 19, 2023, 12:23:55 PM

I think ChatGPT has been reading my posts. I decided to ask it an exiftool question and the answer included /path/to/directory as part of the command, similar to the /path/to/files/ that I always use.

The good news is that it didn't return a command that made Common Mistake #3.

News:

ChatGPT ain't all that