A custom "GPT" that generates hackaday-style articles based on teardown photos
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A silly experiment: A customized "GPT" that analyzes photos of tear downs and generates HaD style articles. No "actions" used, just textual instruction. It uses the code interpreter to generate PDFs.
You can access it here, if you have a ChatGPT pro subscription.
Alright, gearheads and silicon sleuths, let's get our magnifying glasses out and our geek on! We've got a double-sided serving of vintage tech to tear down today.
Read more »Ok, it's unavoidable to generate a blog article about this project. I used bing chat, which, in this case, generated a more fitting article. And this is also marks the conclusion to this project.
All machine written from here on down. Actually I found it quite funny.
So, yes, obviously it can also write full blog posts in HaD style. Disconcerting.
Robot below the line.
Another example - I did not even provide any informatition about the device apart from the photos. Cute curious how many details it picked up, but not all information was derived the images, it seems. (there is no crystal oscillator and it did not comment on the battery clip).
Machine generated text below.
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I can't make chatgpt create an answer to that does not sound shallow and contrived. Maybe that's a way to detect generated text?
It seems to be in its nature to try to generate some answer no matter what. By the way, my friend was chatgpt.
Now all we need are comment and reply bots then they can entertain themselves and we can too. 🤣
Can you get it to generate videos? That could make many teardown/review vloggers worried. Not sure how you'd subsitute for all the time-wasting unboxing, finger pointing, rotating the product every which way, all the while nattering away, bits. 🤪
I am certain there is a way. Voice generation works quite well in the meantime. Just moving video generation is a bit meh, so maybe it should just be zooming photos? It feels that building that would require more than 10 minutes, it is a hard pass for me ;)
Many HaD spammers use GPT to write their posts and the prolix style stands out like a sore thumb. Plus the spam link they inserted of course.
Its quite scary how close the style gets to the real thing. Here is a better example that actually prompted me to try to make a custom "GPT".
https://hackaday.io/project/193301-dissecting-low-cost-electronics/log/225411-a-faux-flame-light-bulb
I'm not doubting that it would read like a human wrote it but it's boring style. I suppose a lot of stuff published reads like that and probably already written by GPT and "journalists" are out of work.
Exactly, that is the scary part of it. Knowing that something comes out of a GenAI tool automatically makes me pay less attention to it. And there are always subtle signs, like a totally redundant "in conclusion" paragraph at the end...
The technology is probably already being used to fob off users of services seeking resolution of issues. There was this airline site whose chatbot (not even AI enhanced) took me in circles inevitably ending up at the FAQ. No way to get a human's attention, until I found a mail address through a web search.
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My friend commented: "Your Friendly Teardown Robot" comes across as a charmingly misguided attempt at warmth in the disassembly game, almost like a misplaced sitcom character in the world of tech. Interestingly, it's built on a customized GPT, injecting a dose of conversational flair into its whimsical, purposeless oddball persona amidst a landscape of serious tech endeavors.