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I often ask copilot about phrases I hear that I don't know or understand, like "what is a key party" - where I just want it to define it, and it will output three paragraphs that end with some suggestion that I am interested in it.

It is something that local models I have tried do not do, unless you are being conversational with it. I imagine openai gets a bit more pennies if they add the open ended questions to the end of every reply, and that's why it's done. I get annoyed if people patronize me, so too I get annoyed at a computer.




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