To think ChatGPT is the best thing ever?

It's a useful guide but needs checking. It told me a village was east of a town, not west ( this was on a coastline that ran east to west so no reason to be confused). When I realised it took me 2 goes to convince it i was right.

The poster who said it takes info and this earnings from bloggers etc was correct, it is leaching off others.

The River Shannon is very important for the eco system in Ireland. The government plan to divert some of it to Dublin , which is growing fast. But I've read that up to 50% of that water will be for data centres. What could possibly go wrong eh.

You do have to be careful. I give it little tests with something quite specific I actually know the answers to, and it often gets the detail wrong while swearing blind it is right, unless you directly challenge it with your information, then it will correct itself.

I asked it about something in the TV show Small Prophets, and it pretended to know the show. When I challenged it by saying something like, Are you really aware of this show? it admitted it wasn’t. It said something about wanting to make me
feel better 🤦‍♀️

it’s good for houseplant care - I upload a pic and say What’s this and how to I care for it, and get specific recommendations for my own individual plant, that I wouldn’t get from google. But you still need some awareness. For example, I’ve known it to get the plant species wrong - major error I would say! So I use it in combination with a bit of my own knowledge.

We (will) find it has advantages and disadvantages same as the internet generally.

My beef with modern tech is that it still can't do basic chores well. That's what I want tech to handle, not the fun stuff like writing, which I enjoy.

You have to use it as a guide and still do your research. Don’t trust it blindly.

My lads say AI will eat their jobs in the next five years , if not sooner. They work mainly in film and video. On a whim one of them asked Chatgpt how long it would take for AI to do most jobs. The answer was less than twenty years. AI also predicted social and political chaos would cause governments to introduce Universal Basic Income.
Make of it what you will.

It’s a bit like sat navs. It’s guidance but if it tells you to drive into a canal, use your own brain.

i use it a lot to chat through business ideas. I run my own business and don’t have anyone to bounce ideas with.

I'd love you to come back and update us on how it actually went...if the route is accurate, safe, takes whatever needs you have into account. Until you test it you won't know.

It’s really good. We’re off to Turkey soon in our campervan. I asked ChatGPT to plot a printable route giving ‘things to see’ in each country on the route. Fabulous response.

I asked it to help with a Scrabble move recently - sent it into a weird loop which it kept apologising for but couldn’t stop! I had to tell it to stop trying to find the answer 🤣

I’m an employment lawyer and I now see more AI generated correspondence than human written. And it’s so frequently wrong!

I’ve also noticed an increase in people “needing” a copy of any questions that their employer wants to ask them before any meeting… so they can chat GPT their responses… it’s honestly ridiculous.

I had a client recently who needed to sack someone in probation as they were absolutely useless at the job - I ran her written post interview assessment through an AI checker and it was 100% AI generated…

and it drives me batty when clients run my advice/documents through chat gpt and email me to tell me I’m wrong because the robot says so. Meaning I then have to spend time that I usually don’t have explaining exactly why their AI assessment is incorrect. It’s so tedious!

I'm in news publishing and my version of this is that it tells everyone they have a GDPR or privacy claim. We now get these very long and wrong legal letters from people about their name having been in the papers.

I've never actually had a correct answer out of it. It once told me a character in the TV show I was watching died of lung cancer in season 4. Given I was currently watching the episode about his wedding in season 6...

It's destroying the environment to churn lies to questions you could answer with a halfway competent Google search. But since it fawns all over you and acts like you are ever so special people fall for it.

No. It’s awful. Not just environmentally, but the info it gives isn’t always accurate. Use your actual brain.

The problem with this sort of use though is that the people who actually made the content it's feeding you (about baking and so on) are now unable to monetise it. Your click through to their blog about buttercream is why the blog exists. It's stealing all this content and ultimately it won't exist anymore to steal.

At the moment we're in a bit of a golden age because it's not been around long enough to mean there's no point in blogging about baking so the stuff it's stealing is up to date.

I love it - I've used it for coding problems and help with Excel spreadsheets - it got everything spot on and correct.

I checked some legal stuff with it- then verified it was correct - it was all perfectly correct.

I've used it as a sounding board for my feelings and asked it challenge me- it did so perfectly in a really supportive manner.

I've used it to help me make more money and I have made more money.

I love it- of course it has to be used responsibly but thats like anything in life, eg. cars need to be used responsibly otherwise they can be dangerous but we dont suggest cars shouldnt have been invented.

I totally agree.

I have cancer and it has given me a prognosis of 2 to 4 years, I hope I’ve got longer than that.

Hahaha... no. I work in employment law and it seems to tell everyone they have a valid claim for constructive dismissal. They almost never do. It's become a bit of an in-joke amongst my colleagues.

It’s great, but it will change jobs and unemployment will rise. We use it work to do all meeting minutes meaning really we could lose two staff members.
it frequently gets things wrong but it’s helped with my loss like nothing ever has before!

And use up huge amounts of water.

I have used it for some complicated legal issues and it has been amazing,

diagnosed a problem on the car and accurately estimated the probable cost

😂 Thanks for the laugh.

It doesn't have brains, it just searches the web, which is full of inaccurate information.

It gets things wrong all the time. I work with the public and the incorrect pretend legal slop they send us is infuriating as we then have to spend time explaining how chat gpt has got it wrong.