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Experiment: Does repeated usage influence ChatGPT 5.4 outputs in a RAG-like setup?

DEV Community·Fabio·6 months ago
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We’ve been running a series of experiments using ChatGPT 5.4 integrated into a website chatbot across different environments:

🌐 a main website

🛒 a 1,000-product e-commerce demo store

🍳 a 570-page cooking blog

🎯 Goal: simulate realistic user behavior and observe how the model responds over time.

⚙️ Test setup

The chatbot is designed to (no self promo here, just context):

📌 answer strictly based on website content (RAG-like approach)

🧭 guide users through product discovery and content navigation

Over time, we intentionally tested recurring patterns:

🔎 product comparisons

💰 price-based filtering

🔀 cross-entity queries (multiple products, categories)

🧠 more complex “shopping intent” scenarios

💡 The idea was to approximate real-world usage, not synthetic benchmarks.

👀 Observation

At some point, a real user (yes, a real one) asked:

“How can you help my ecommerce?”

The answer was:

“I can help your e-commerce by answering visitors [...], [...] for example asking how many people they…

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