At the beginning of this month, Adrian Holovata, founder of the music platform SoundliceHe solved the secret that has been harassing him for weeks. Strange images of what ChatgPT sessions were clearly sent to the page.
When he solved this, he realized that Chatgpt became one of the biggest noise in his company – but people also lied to what his application could do.
Holovaty is best known as one of the creators of Open Source Django projectPython's popular development framework (although he withdrew from project management in 2014). In 2012, he launched Soundslice, which remains “proudly with charging,” says Techcrunch. He is currently focusing on his musical career Both as an artist And as a founder.
Soundlice is an application for teaching music, used by students and teachers. It is known for a video player synchronized with musical notations that direct users about how to play notes.
It also offers a function called “music scanner”, which allows users to send a picture of paper music, and with the help of artificial intelligence will automatically transform it into an interactive sheet, along with records.
He said that Holovata carefully observes the error diaries of this function to see what problems they occur, where to add improvements.
It was there that he began to see the sent ChatgPT sessions.
They created several error diaries. Instead of notes images, these were images of words and a box of symbols called tabulars. This is the basic text system used for guitar entries that uses a regular keyboard. (For example, there is no altitude key on the standard QWERTY keyboard.)
Holovaty said that the number of these photos of the ChatgPT session was not so troublesome that it cost his money and crushes the capacity of his application. He was surprised, he wrote In the post on the blog About the situation.
“Our scanning system was not intended to support this notation style. Why were we bombarded with so many screenshots of the ChatgPT ASCII screen? I was mystified for weeks – until I mixed up with chatgpt.”
In this way he saw Chatgpt, who told people that they could hear this music by opening the Soundlice account and sending a picture of a chat session. Only they couldn't. The message of these images will not translate the ASCII card into audio notes.
A new problem hit him. “The main cost was reputational: new soundlice users entered with false expectations. They were certainly told that we would do something that we are not really doing,” he described TechCrunch.
He and his team discussed their options: SLAP reservations on the entire page on this page – “No, we cannot transform the ChatgPT session into auditory music” – or build this function into a scanner, although he had never considered the support of this unusual musical notation system before.
He decided to build this function.
“My feelings on this subject are contradictory. I am glad that I will add a tool that helps people. But I think our hand was forced in a strange way. Should we really develop functions in response to disinformation?” he wrote.
He also wondered if this was the first documented case in which the company must develop a function, because Chatgpt still repeated, for many people, its hallucinations.
Fellow programmates in Hacker News had Interesting shot About this: several of them stated that they are no different from excessive human seller promising perspectives to the world, and then forcing programmers to provide new functions.
“I think it's a very apt and funny comparison!” Holovaty agreed.
