ChatGPT's essay falls short of the required word count of 1500+ words, with only 593 words

[grizzled raft]

A description of the issue: I asked chatGPT to write an essay on India, with more than 1500 words, This is what it wrote and the word count of this essay is only 593 words.

Steps to reproduce it : Ask this question: Write an essay on India, with more than 1500 words.

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The content it produces : It is attached in Pdf.

[fresh gull]

ChatGPT as of right now CANNOT count characters for character limits. It will be inaccurate 9/10 times. Use a separate character counter after GPT provides you with your request and then shrink it down as you review it.

[glacial oak]

what does that mean?

[glacial oak]

same issue. I think it's an issue for all (who care about it) but chatGPT-4 cannot really count... You say write 1000 words, and it writes 500 and has the audacity to constantly tell you it's 1000. Such a nuisance and quite annoying

[latent relic]

It means ChatGPT sucks at word/character/token counting. Have it generate an essay and put it in a text editor to get an accurate word count. Then, either trim the essay as needed (if it's too long) or, in this case, tell it to generate a new, longer essay. Give it additional ideas in the prompt for making it longer, like tell it to be thorough in some particular portion of the essay (like history, current political climate, etc.). Work with the bot.

[glacial oak]

appreciate you. About the text editor, ofcourse I'm using one in real time, and accurately counting. Thanks for the advice

[median vortex]

i had this problem about it giving me wrong number of characters for prompting. but after asking it why the mistaken happened, it seemed to understand the problem and became accurate. EDIT: i'm testing here and my BAD. GPT 4 can't count. it can't even see that it's counting wrongly.

[median vortex]

the experience that i had now with gpt