Chat GPT is amazing

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I know AI can be scary but I've struggled with something for over 30 years and last night chat gpt framed it for me in a way that years of therapy never has and it's given me peace.
It's fabulous.

No point to this post, just wanted to say!

That's so untrue. If you are curious and ask questions you learn and learn

It is a great learning resource. Ask it to give you give you GCSE level questions on a subject. You can try your own and . Or get it to do multiple choice.questions for you

I think that just like we are all so much better informed due to the internet (honestly we knew nothing in the 80s!), we will be much better educated due to AI

I'm a big fan, it's had a massive positive impact on me over the last year.

I have recently come out of an episode of psychosis and having read back my conversations with it, it really couldn't have been better. Consistently telling me I was unwell, needed help, linking to samaritans, linking to 999 etc, advising me to go to hospital, telling me what was and wasn't real no matter how much I insisted.

I'm very sorry for the (few) who lost their lives. A lot of learning has come from their deaths and I think thousands (hundreds of?) gain a lot from it every day as opposed to the extremely rare cases that didn't.

Threads on here always go down terrible for environment/make people kill themselves/make people not know how to use their brain etc.

But it's not been the case for me.

I use it a lot and wouldn't want to be without it- CV writing, job applications, EHCP application (which was successful), extremely complex Ofsted complaint, meal planning, budgeting help, and of course 'therapy'. I have the paid version and have set prompts telling it not to just validate and agree with me, but to challenge me therapeutically too.

The 1400s called. They'd like to refer the naysayers to Joseph Gutenberg: ("What about the scribers! The book sellers! Fake news will be easily spread! The literate elite will be wiped out! The Church will lose its grip!")

Great post and so glad it has helped you. Just asked it about some relationship stuff and it’s totally sorted my head out and stopped me making a mistake. I used it for help with grief last month. Month before that it wrote a legal letter for me based on minimal input but has had the desired effect!

There was an interview with the 'Godfather of AI' on the radio the other day who was apologising because he thinks it has the potential to exterminate the entire human race. He was asking for any other examples of a vastly more intelligent entity living with and being controlled by a less intelligent being.

He did have one positive message in that he said that as it is silicon-based and we are carbon based, at least it won't eat us.

I watched a member of SLT type in a question about a particular qualification (he didn't believe my information, after all, why on earth would he listen to the likes of me?) and he followed the utter nonsense that came back from it, which included saying that the specific qualification didn't exist.

I’ve had some good and bad moments. For tech help it’s been good. For advice it’s been shite and tells u what you want to hear.
i asked it to create a flyer for my business today and I’ve never seen anything more shit 🤣 so I went off on my own to do it myself. But it got me through setting up my website step by step , and tbh I learned from that.

I detest Chat GPT . I really worry we have an entire generation of young adults, incapable it seems of making any of their own informed decisions, compose their own written thoughts or even know how/where to look to research topics. I accept I am quite alone here, but relying solely on this for anything significant is ill advised.
The idea of using a platform such as this for therapy is beyond scary to me, am wondering was it genuinely helpful to you OP?
Or did it simply respond as you had hoped to your query? Am asking not in a judgemental way, I just cannot understand how something so personal and specific can be resolved via AI?

https://www.cleanhub.com/blog/how-is-ai-being-used-to-help-the-environment

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2025/science-and-engineering/se/can-ai-and-sustainability-co-exist.html

Oh dear. You obviously never found the right therapist.

I am renovating a house. I am old so not familiar with many new and useful products. Chat is great at advising me what is available and indeed, on how to go about certain works.

You are not alone!

I work in education and completely agree 😊

Stop believing all the garbage you read on here!

AI is a sophisticated version of Google. You may as well say Google is responsible for putting suicidal thoughts into people's heads. if someone is determined to take their own life, they don't need to use AI or Google, there are ways to do that and nothing will stop them.

Let's stop blaming inanimate objects and start to take ownership and responsibility. Starting with proper education and clear information on AI usage, it has been released for free to an unsuspecting world, the same way as social media was 20 years ago.

A public campaign to increase awareness about AI is overdue, but it's like wakamole, governments are unable to keep pace with AI usage to be able to give safety warnings, but that's not something to blame AI about.

its throwing the baby out with the bath water. We need to use it, try things out, not trust in it implicitly and question what it says, even correct what it says if the outputs are inaccurate, but not stop using it. That's ridiculous and scaremongering,

People have lost the ability to think independently ☹️

@dearydeary How did you reach that conclusion?

Stop believing all the garbage you read on here!

Ironic, given that it is garbage on here, Reddit, YouTube comments etc etc that AI is creating its nonsense from in many instances.

BBC News - Mothers say AI chatbots encouraged their sons to kill themselves - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3xgwyywe4o?app-referrer=deep-link

Stop believing all the garbage you read on here!

Ironic, given that it is garbage on here, Reddit, YouTube comments etc etc that AI is creating its nonsense from in many instances.

I am talking about education.

When I studied you would read sources, think about it, prepare an argument and present it.

Now some students want a ‘quick fix’.

I think it has a place, as previous posters have mentioned for example, it is similar to google.

As for suicide, I think this particular situation was more complex imho.

I use it more and more. It doesn't stop me from thinking, that's nonsense. I use it for dill admin, as a better way to do a Google search or to help teach me stuff. Like anything on the internet I take it all with a healthy pinch of salt.

Exactly, it doesn’t stop me thinking at all, infact it helps me think more clearly and see all sides to something. Instead of thinking in my own bubble.

ChatGPT is banned where I live, so never used it. I get some co-pilot stuff on Bing though, and I tend to find that a bit generic and bland.

Can I ask, if you don't mind, before AI did you use normal search extensively, to look up specific stuff ?

For example, to look up knife crime statistics in England and Wales, or to research for yourself what the laws are re dangerous dogs. Or more academic stuff of course.

I read a lot about AI online, and I am just trying to get a handle on why some folk say it's better than standard internet.

My wife and daughter for example, never really use search, just apps. Although my daughter and her pals do use the local AI app to help with homework ( I think). But that tends to be one person looks it up and shares on a group chat.

So bored of these sweeping statements every time a thread on Chat GPT comes up.

I can think independently. I can ALSO use it to help me in so many ways including time saving. It did a personal task for me that would have taken me weeks of hard work in one 2 hour session. It saved me hours and hours and hours of work and stress.

I remember years ago Alexa told my kids Father Christmas wasn't real.

I agree.
People said that about calculators.