What do you use chatGPT for, if you use it at all?

[Groaaan]

A friend told me her workload has halved since she started using it but I couldn’t understand how, something to do with spreadsheets. Then I’ve just been reading an AMA where they are, very worryingly to me, having some kind of fantasy relationship with it.

I’ve used it to design an invitation to a 50th and for ideas about designing my new kitchen but nothing more.

Just wondering what other people use it for, if they do at all.

I've just read that thread too and it's terrifying 😬.

But yes I use it fairly regularly - we're doing a lot of work to our house and I find it good for putting together rooms and giving me ideas, it generates images and I use it as a sort of home design service. Also use it a lot for recipes and menu inspiration. Those are the main things.

I uploaded some new skincare products I bought and it gave me a morning/evening routine

Suggested timeline for vaccinations after I was given a short notice business trip instructions and where to get appts at short notice

I gave a set time to visit an area in Hong Kong and it's given me a detailed travel plan for an 8 hour visit

Protein meal plan for my age based on daily gram intake

It can hallucinate a bit so I always question it thoroughly

I use it every time a random question pops into my head 😆

I used it recently as about to have an operation and wanted to get more details. Also used it to try out different hair styles and colour, as a virtual try on model (upload a pic of yourself and the outfit and it will create you wearing it). I also sell on Etsy and use it to create pics (like if I made a bag I can have whatever person in whatever setting using it).
I used it to compare cars; had a question about a property in London it gave pros and cons backed up by actual figures…

For medical info. You can get helpful advice straight away during the interminable wait for a GP or NHS consultant visit. Also good for diagnosing household issues, ie, how do I fix this peeling area of paintwork, stick in a photo, it’ll give you an analysis.

In the last 24 hours

• what nibbles to bring to an event and specific products from my supermarket
• recipes for gluts of fruits - rhubarb, blackberries and plums
• help with a science experiment, not clear instruction
• ask it to track a product and let me know when it’s on special offer
• how to deal with a specific house plant
• Explain and traps in SEN education related email

I used it yesterday to help sort out my budget, a few months ago I used it for some meal plans. I tend to use it for questions like that a few days in a row and then not at all for weeks or months

House/interior design, drafting conplaint letters. Finding out why I had received an unexpected tax bill. Working out was IBU in messaging with ex/friend/sister etc, how to respond without aggravating, what pet insurance was the best, how to box in some pipework, what skincare might help my hormonal acne, what tarot spread would be best to answer a question I had, what film might my 12 yr old daughter and 15 yr old son actually agree on (legally blonde, it turned out. Who knew)....

I used to use it as a sounding board and something to brainstorm with.

Now I don’t use it at all, because I found it very addictive. Which was fine until I discovered the gap between subscription price and tokens burned. I was burning through a shit tonne of tokens and realistically there would be no way I could afford a pay as you go for what you use model. Which is what it will cost eventually. So I weaned myself off as a choice. Rather than face cold turkey due to being priced out.

Last few days- recipe for lemon drizzle cake, photos of an insect bite to ask advice, what is The Shards about, which small potted tree is most hardy, where you can see the eclipse, recommended facials

I've never used it as my brain works fine and Chatgpt seems to be addictive - I'm worried my brain will rot if I start!

I do sometimes read the AI summary which Google inserted (unasked for) in search results. If my question is important I check the information directly from the sources, as the AI summary is often wrong or misunderstands the question.

I refuse to have anything to do with any of it!

Travel
Meal planning
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Its amazing for agendas , posters etc

I've asked it to find me peer reviewed, published journal articles that are freely available and that connect X topic with Y topic. I'd already used Google Scholar and alumni access to the UCL library and was hitting a brick wall with being able to read more than an abstract.

Everyone's fine and dandy with AI.

Until it devours their job.

We used it a lot to compare houses we were going to view. It was extremely helpful, giving advantages/disadvantages/explaining probable costs etc. It gives comparisons of location/rainfall/facilities etc.

I used it recently to show my weightloss-it will show you holding the amount of weight you’ve lost and I did a before and after photo, with 2 versions of me-old me with my arm round new me.

A colleague has used it quite a lot to create worksheets quickly. She asked for eg 30 minutes work and it generates a really decent sheet.

I'm not sure this thread is any less terrifying than the other one.

A name for my fantasy league team
A limerick
I’m in very early stages of dating someone and get quite anxious, so have been copying our chats into ChatGPT and asking their opinion - saves my friends being bored silly over every comment 😊

Nothing at all. I don't want to use it for anything.

Wow, I just dipped into that "Ai is my bf" that and stopped after the op. That's creepy.

I only use it to check my symptoms or to understand them better.

Tracking things- spending, fibre, protein, exercise (+ developing exercise plans for particular aims), any sort of life admin stuff
Interior design- very good at creating images based on a photo of an existing room plus description of your ideas
Holiday planning
Retirement planning
I use it at work all the time for all sorts of things including research and drafting, but this is very much as a tool rather than instead of me doing it- it's not reliable enough yet

Most recently hairstyles.
Otherwise correcting my grammar (not native).
Re-formulating emails to school to sound less emotional.
Meal planning and exercise routine.
Also asked for sports gear recommendations about a sport I know nothing about.
And I uploaded a photo of DH's bike and asked it how much it really cost....

For teaching it can be good. If I wanted to create a model for students to identify language devices it may take me 30 minutes, it now takes 30 seconds. It’s not brilliantly written and you have to check for Americanisms but it reduces time in areas where you don’t necessarily need a perfect model which allows time for other areas where you do

I have used it to try different hair styles, and make a fake painting of my children. I asked it for information about managing eczema. I thought it was fun and interesting when it first came out. Now everything looks and sounds the same because no one can use prompts effectively.

My partner was addicted to using it for about a year and had a subscription but it kept lying/hallucinating, whatever you want to call it. I think that made me dig my heels in even more about using it. Is particularly cross when he got it to summarise a book instead of reading it himself!

I also get annoyed when someone posts a question and some bright spark goes "I asked chatgpt and it said..." as though it didn't occur to them that OP could have used AI themselves if they wanted to!

I think we should be using our brains and I think AI is unethical in the way it steals information and the recent destruction of old books etc. Not to mention the obscene amount of water it uses (because of corporate greed, there are other ways to cool those horrendous warehouses) etc.