The moment I realized my AI chatbot was just echoing my own bad prompts

I've been playing around with custom GPTs for like 6 months now, mostly for writing product descriptions. Last week I noticed the responses were getting super generic and boring. Then I read a comment on here about how the quality of your output is tied to how specific your input is, not just the model. So I went back and compared my old prompts to ones where I actually included a target audience, a tone, and a word count. Night and day difference. Anyone else caught in this trap where you blame the AI but it's actually your own vague instructions?

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milesj701mo ago

Ha, right on. It's funny how easy it is to blame the robot before you realize you basically just told it "write something good" and hoped for the best.

leelewis1mo ago

Garbage in, garbage out, always has been.

wendy_jackson1mo ago

Did you ever roll your eyes at this saying before? I sure did, back when I thought any input was automatically the computer's fault. But watching people feed AI junk and then complain about the output finally made it click for me.