Forbes January 12, 2025
In today’s column, I am continuing my ongoing coverage of prompt engineering strategies and tactics that aid in getting the most out of using generative AI apps such as ChatGPT, GPT-4, Gemini, Claude, etc. The focus this time will be on what to do about those frustrating fallback responses that you sometimes get from generative AI.
A fallback response is essentially a non-response response, namely that the AI balks at the prompt that you entered and won’t answer the posed question or otherwise dodges addressing the true nature of the prompt. Turns out that most of the AI makers have tuned their generative AI apps to politely rebuff certain kinds of prompts. I will take a close look at the...