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What? It doesn't give opinions. It doesn't have opinions, it's a probability matrix.
Put very simply, when it's "trained" it takes a lot of data as input, and out of that it builds a sort of "map" of relationships between the input data. When then given an input it can look up that input in the "map" and gives you the most probable following sequence.
Put simply, if you give it "Once upon..." it'll likely continue with "a time there was" because that's a pattern it'll have seen a lot.
It's an evolution of the autocorrect we have in phone keyboards. It's more advanced, and as people tweak weights of different neurons you can tweak the output. You can also train a model further to fit it to a specific purpose, but ultimately it's just fancy autocomplete.
Ah right. No, I meant it in a very lose way. That ChatGPT won't calculate elaborate maths to then do some mathematical transformations on your input text. Instead it'll do its math and then come up with an "opinion" on what it wants to rephrase. Which is going to be an "opinion" in that it isn't conclusive and in contrast to a straightforward maths to change the entropy? I mean otherwise it'd be very easy to change this? Just use a different formula?
Or phrased a bit differently: If it doesn't introduce an own opinion/judgement. What's the issue here? Just configure it to stick with the entropy amount and distribution of the input?
But I have no clue what they're talking about. Maybe there's specific text editors/correctors out there, that I'm not aware of... I'm not up to date with these things. Or they're talking about copy-pasting into ChatGPT, which I've tried.