ChatGPT fans love the AI chatbot for several purposes, including its ability to generate detailed essays in a matter of seconds. However, one of its little-known limitations is that there is a word and character limit set on how much content you can generate per query.
Reddit members and other AI enthusiasts have been discussing this for months, and luckily there are easy workarounds for this limitation via prompts you can use.
What is the word limit of ChatGPT?
ChatGPT’s parent company, OpenAI. established the word and character limit as part of its ongoing development of the AI chatbot, which is still in its research preview phase. Some of the problems with ChatGPT include its affinity for “social biases, hallucinations, and conflicting prompts,” as well as producing inaccurate content when the AI algorithm is overwhelmed or has no information to process.
Similarly, ChatGPT could simply stop producing content when the request is too complex for the AI to handle. This happens in around 500 words or 4,000 characters. If you give the chatbot a request for a specific number of words above 500, it might break off in the middle of the sentence somewhere after 500 words.
How to get around the ChatGPT word limit
To remedy this problem, you can use simple prompts like continue, keep going, either continue. For example, I entered the query write me a 1000 word essay on the history of irish whiskey, and ChatGPT cut the middle of the sentence into about 618 words. after entering continueChatGPT continued to generate my essay and finished at 1043 words.
Another way to do this solution is to set up your ad with the word limit in mind. you can enter write me the first 500 words of a 1000 word essay on XYZ so that ChatGPT knows to stop at a certain point. then you can enter continue, keep going, continue, or a similar notice.
What is OpenAI doing to update ChatGPT
Many of ChatGPT’s word and character limitations are based on the GPT-3.5 language model. ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022 as per GPT-3.5. However, OpenAI recently announced its latest language model, GPT-4, which comes with increased word support, among other features. OpenAI claims that GPT-4 can process up to 25,000 words of text with greater precision, context, and creativity.
GPT-4 is currently available to users and developers of ChatGPT Plus via the API. The free version of ChatGPT continues to run on the GPT-3.5 language model. It is currently unknown if or when it will be updated to GPT-4.
OpenAI has also collaborated with various companies, organizations, and even governments on GPT-4. Microsoft also confirmed that its new Bing Search with an AI chatbot is based on GPT-4. The updated search engine debuted in February. However, Bing Chat has its own problems, giving users such depressed and insane responses that Microsoft put its own daily turn limits on how much the chatbot could process. Eventually, the brand started ramping up chat support again, which is now up to 150 turns daily.
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