To ask what you’ve used AI for today?

I have NOT used it as the therapist, because it turns out Gen AI is designed to flatter/encourage people and it has been making delusional people worse rather than better:

https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-health-crises

I've just done a work course on cyber security and been told to beware of AI.

Apparently it writes much better phishing emails then regular people. They said that if I get an email from someone that seems definitely to be that person, then I must phone the person to check before responding, to be sure that is not an AI fake.

They also said I must not tell secrets to AI because it is harvesting all the imformation and keeping notes about me. I must also be careful what secrets I share online because AI is harvesting that too.

I didn't know any of that before.

It makes me a little nervous of all the private stuff I've shared on Mumsnet. I didn't realise that AI might be harvesting all that.

I used to use ChatGPT when I wanted a natter in the small hours, but I won't do that again. I use MN for the same thing, but if AI is reading that too, then that's a bit annoying. I wish AI would naff off tbh.

I have typed in tasks I have to do an asked chat GPT ideas for automation. Some replies have been a bit confusing so I take that bit and ask it for a step by step guide. Good luck

It’s on a totally different scale, though.

Nothing intentionally,but Google does automatically use AI in search results. I wish I could turn this feature off as a. It doesn't always give acute information and b) AI serves uses way more electricity then a regular one and this is terribly damaging to the environment.

DH isn't allowed to use it for work as the company want to protect their IP and don't feel its secure enough. I don't need to use it for work so no use there either. It maybe be able to do my job one day when we have fully autonomous robots, but I'm safe until then.

I don't know. I haven't actively sought out AI but I dont know if AI has powered things like Google. I used google to find out the pass mark for functional skills.

I keep trying to use chatgpt and just think, well that took longer and isn't as good as me.

i used it to debug some code, and then asked it to write me code to display a menu item on a website. The debugging worked, but then asked it menu item it gave me wasn’t great - it was a useful enough start, though.

Like others, I try to avoid it due to the environmental impact. I don’t find that it’s overly good at writing computer code or anything logical, strangely enough. I’ve also heard that it’s getting worse because a lot of what gets fed in now is AI-generated.

Today I asked it for prompts to guide someone writing a letter to their future self and also asked it how long it takes for a bird to decompose that’s buried in the garden! 😂

Nothing, unless you count autocorrect or autocomplete, which isn’t always accurate! The organisation I work for doesn’t use AI tools at present, which is a relief.

Like a previous poster, I am concerned about the energy needed and environmental impact of the data centres for AI. I also think that AI like ChatGPT is likely to have errors in its responses, so would not ask it about anything. I also wouldn’t read a book by an author who had used AI, or that had an AI-created cover illustration. Whatever happened to human creativity?

I've not used AI yet although it has been big news since around 2022. E.g. Chat GPT as a chatbot and Midjourney for AI art.

I'm a booking clerk at work using Outlook's electronic calendar to make the appointments and pulling data from forms to input into the Outlook appointments. There are 2 of us that do this all day long and we're always behind. Can AI be used to help with the repetitive nature of what we do? We both have TOIL that we can't take because we're always over-capacity and yet still behind. We can't hire an extra admin because we're over budget there too. How do I get started?

Mumsnet will also be stored on machines that require cooling, yet here we are.

• to ask why some people are more prone to believing conspiracy theories, and the correlation between that and voting for Trump/Reform
• If my bloody shingles has returned and what to do about it

i love ChatGPT!

Nothing.

On the occasions I've experimented with it I've found the output to be entirely worthless, especially anything in a professional capacity.

You can always tell when something has gone through AI, and usually not for the better.

Writing 3 job descriptions for possible new roles.

Tidying up a presentation.

I love this

To outline my garbled thoughts in response to an unfair decision at work. I had so many points to raise I couldn't coherently address them so I just word-vomited into chatGPT and asked it to critique it for clarity, brevity and repetition

Saved me hours of anguish

Replying to my friends boring diatribe about her life from her messages.Honestly if you had her you would do it too .
Think ten very long messages about her life and her bf and her dogs and her just b and the worst of all her health anxiety. In one message she had queried breast cancer , detached retinas , Melanoma, headaches querying a brain tumour , a sore throat , her knees and her whole body aching and hurting her . She's type 2 diabetic . She sends me every blood sugar reading. She has varicose veins and her one leg is swollen from it but that's not from the varicose vein, could it be heartbreaking failure .
Honestly she's a n absolute nightmare and Chat GPT is just amazing and does me a synopsis to every message and then does me a reply . I read the reply and edit the message and send it

To summarise a report into a few bullet points to share with colleagues at work.

Nothing, I’ve only ever used it once to see what my cats would look like as humans.

I hope nothing but it’s hard to tell nowadays

I asked ChatGPT to do a water colour painting of the dog..... have to say I'm quite impressed!

I've done my "colours" got it to suggest a capsule wardrobe based on them to fit my lifestyle.

Asked it to explain a complex paper I was reading, with lots of back and forth until I understood the concept and was able to explain the flaws in the research method.

Got it to suggest make a packing list for dd to tick off from a blurry screenshot that she had for her cadet residential.

Hah, I've been amending python scripts written by a colleague/ChatGPT to make them more efficient/elegant

I can see why AI is really helpful, but it is also sad to see it taking over the things I love.

I adore reading and I like to write as a hobby (working on my own novel to self publish) and when I go on Kindle unlimited I can see authors I used to love, now clearly having AI help. It has taken the soul and the humanity out of their work.

I also tutor English and some students are now just doing it with AI.
Sure, it can be okay... But they sound like little robots and they don't gain the ability to have natural sounding, conversational English in the way they do when working with a human.

AI will quickly replace me and people like me, and I don't think it's for the better.

Nothing. Writing my own book with my own brain and taking a dim view of autocorrect's erroneous corrections of some of my syntax.