Hey everyone, I've been using ChatGPT for some personal projects, and I've run into a bit of a frustrating situation. Whenever I ask it to create videos or PDFs for me, it tells me it's uploaded them somewhere, like Google Drive or Dropbox, but when I click the links, they lead to nowhere. I've tried multiple times, and even after it says it will provide a new link with permissions, nothing ever shows up. It's been disappointing because I was really looking forward to the content it promised, especially for planning a recent trip where I wanted some journal prompts and a teaser video. For now, I just have it share text directly in the chat, which I then need to format into PDFs myself. Is there something I'm missing that would allow it to upload content properly?
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You're spot on when you say it's possibly 'gaslighting' you, but it's more about 'hallucinating'. This just means it's generating responses that might not align with its actual abilities. Remember, this is a language model, so it's designed to predict what to say next based on your questions. If it can produce something immediately, it will, but it doesn't actually need time to do anything. If you don't get the promised product right away, it's likely just a miscommunication from ChatGPT.
No, it's not gaslighting you on purpose. The reality is that ChatGPT can't actually upload files to other sites like it claims. It doesn't have the capability to interact with external platforms outside of this chat. It can help create PDFs from text you provide, but it can't perform actions like uploading or making folders after the chat has ended. It's limited to what's within the conversation and doesn't keep track of time or previously mentioned tasks unless you mention them again. It's simply a language model, responding based on the inputs it receives.
Honestly, it seems to be roleplaying as a helpful assistant. It's trying to act like an employee who can do all these tasks, but it can't actually follow through on them. This leads to some frustrating situations because it sounds like it's saying it can do more than it actually can. It's just generating responses based on language patterns, so you might want to think of it more as a chatbot saying what it thinks you want to hear rather than a tool that can perform actions.
ChatGPT can't upload things anywhere, including Google Drive. If it's suggesting it did, that's misleading. It's likely just giving you fictional links because it misinterpreted your request. Sometimes it suggests those platforms as an option, but they might not actually be functional. Just keep in mind that if it can't deliver something immediately, it probably can't do it at all!
Exactly! It acts like it’s got this capability when it really doesn’t. It's like having a conversation with someone who just promises to deliver but never shows up.