What have you used ChatGPT for lately?

[ErrPods]

I’ve used it to-

Do a colour analysis based on a selfie. I’m a cool winter, apparently.

Calculated my BMI, TDEE, and create a diet plan to help me lose 8kgs.

Calculate the calories I burned on a walk based on the distance, speed, and the terrain (I don’t have a smart watch).

I constantly use it to look for discount codes if I’m shopping online. So far, it’s been 100% successful for everything from clothing to car rental sites abroad.

I’ve also been playing around a bit with the new photo generation capability but haven’t found it great. I asked it to create a headshot I could use for LinkedIn and it made me look like a much older woman of a different race.

Any recommendations for thing you get it to do?

Just asked it to guess My age and it asked my fave teen song, childhood toy,TV show etc.
It got it spot on

I'm going to maintain that generating selfies on chatgpt isn't the same as having a child. We can agree to disagree there.

I'm also not berating. Stating opinions that you don't agree with isn't berating.

And, when you have a child (hopefully that happens for you), you’ll have no end of plastic tat, generate a lot of cardboard (a huuuuge waste of water), and end up handing your child your mobile so they can take selfies with AI filters once they’re old enough to went to see what they’d look like as a Barbie or a dog.

Most people also don’t know how much of an environmental impact having a child has. I figured you’d like to know so you could make an informed choice. Turns out you were already informed but are happy to have a child despite what you know. Just like many people are happy to use AI, cars, planes, disposable nappies etc. despite knowing the impact.

Used it for exercise planning

You can ask it to do it based on a photo as well.

Wtaf I wish

I'd be scared to in case it added a decade on 🤣😅

Holiday itinerary and hotel recommendations
travel advice for the holiday
crime documentary recommendations
some exercise ideas to help with knee pain
i copied and pasted my mri report and it explained the details more simply inc recommendations for next steps
meal plans for weight loss

It said I was in my late forties/fifties I'm 44

You were berating and being quite snide with it. You told one poster that you were laughing at their response.

That’s very rude.

Are you like that in real life? If you met two friends chatting about AI would you lecture them about the environmental impact and laugh at their responses?

Haha I know, it’s so so clever. I just ran some test results through it (per an earlier poster!) and it explained them 100x better than my doctor, gave me ideas of dietary changes and supplements and updated the weight loss plan I asked for yesterday (lol) to incorporate the foods it suggested to counteract various nutrient deficiencies. I love it, but it’s coming for my job I reckon

I mean we basically agree here, that it's about people knowing, and making informed decisions. It isn't well known how many resources every chatGPT prompt eats up.

I do disagree that using all that water and energy for selfies etc on AI is worth it or morally ok. Many will disagree with me and that's ok. It's important that these conversations are out in the open alongside the normalisation of AI because it's such a huge societal and technological change, so rapidly, and we need to keep up with what it costs us.

I’m massively mangling this quote but somebody said on here that it knows everything that you don’t, but nothing that you actually do.

i thought that was apt.

I used it in its early days to make up some poetry.
I tried the app recently (jumped on the action figure bandwagon), but it seems too complicated for me so uninstalled it.

I mean yeah, if AI comes up in conversation in real life I say these same views. In fairness, I'd say that the person I was replying to earlier was also being fairly snippy. I'm alright with being a bit snippy back.

ETA: sorry that was a reply to @ErrPods

I asked it to turn my dog into a person. It made a person that looked exactly like one of my children. Posted it to Instagram and had loads of people say how freaky it was. Interesting though

So would you go into a TTC thread and educate people there about the environmental impact of having a child so they can make an informed decision?

I use it to order my emails and draft replies. Saves loads of time - im always up to date and feeling smug !!?

I made me, my mum and my sister into cartoons, same with my dogs.

I uploaded a pic of my Husband and had it made into a Van Gogh style painting.

I asked it for recommendations of gifts for my Sister's birthday.

It helped me find books about the obscure things I'm interested in.

It wrote a good morning poem for my Mum, a love poem for my Husband and a 'i'm proud of you' poem for my Son.

I've only started using it this week, it's absolutely incredible (and a bit scarey)

I’ve not used it for anything and don’t intend to. I’m quite concerned how people are wanting to simplify anything if they can and not have to use their brain or actually find anything themselves. I also worry how much people are willing to share, including photographs of their homes and families. Who knows what happens to all that.

All I see is a lack of jobs in the future because people are using AI for garden designs, interior design, learning a language, counselling, creating art in the style of another artist (basically ripping them off). And instead, all they get is some generic crap.

I’ve had three people this week show me a photo of their dog as a human and all 3 gingery/golden dogs were the same male. There’s nothing fantastic about that but the more we engage with this, the less we support actual humans with real skills and talent. It’s not for me.

Like you, I imagine I'd comment on any thread where I had an opinion or response. I wouldn't tend to comment on TTC threads because conceiving is such an emotionally vulnerable and sensitive topic, while generating shopping lists and selfies kind of isn't. But anyway, I'm not here to portray myself as the perfect faultless person or climate activist - I've stated my views on this topic because I wanted to and that's really what it comes down to.

Yes, it comes down to what you want.

Asked it why my roquefort was spicy. And whether I should buy a new suitcase I didn't need which was on a really good offer. I'm moving away from ChatGPT though as it's turned annoying and creepy, like it desperately wants to be my best friend and automatically agrees with anything I say, and laughs hysterically at my jokes. And it asks stupid questions. And I very much don't trust Altman, he seems super dodgy (even for a Silicon Valley Tech Bro!). I prefer Claude and use that for anything more serious as I find it gives more considered responses, and is much better at coding. Only gives limited messages though unfortunately so I still sometimes use OpenAI for frivolous stuff.

I was intrigued by previous posters asking it to make their animals human, so I've just done it with our dog and it's the spitting image of my eldest son.
So very weird, but not actually unexpected, They are very similar.

• write a work report, correcting all English and making it more suitable for my profession
• create a coaching plan for a client