To not know what to use Chat GPT for?

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I know IABU as I am posting here for traffic. I want to know all you Chat GPT tips! Do you use it at home or work, or both! What can I use it to do and how can it make everything in my life easier! Can I get it to plan my meals for a week ect?

@Normalsizedsalad I am careful. I implement the damn tech at work, I'm very well aware of how unreliable it is, and it's way less reliable for many tasks people have outlined on here. I don't have some complicated illness, I was looking for confirmation on wound dressings, but obviously the whole thread will carry on with well meaning people telling me how stupid I am.

I listed my clothes and asked for outfit ideas with the prompt of everyday wfh wear, meeting friends for coffee kind of occasions. It came up with a great set of ideas, all of which I can recreate as I obviously own every item needed.

I stopped using it to refine work stuff since an all-user email told us not to use it 😅

I use it to generate first drafts of marketing emails for my side hustle. The more detail you give about audience and tone of voice, the better the suggested content.

I didn't mean it as you are stupid, but fine.

@Normalsizedsalad sorry it's just the third comment and some of the others were along the "aren't you naive" sort of line that some mumsnettters specialise in 😁

I confess I used it to write all the outline header points of an essay. It did try to write me the essay but as I knew it could all be rubbish and get me in trouble I deleted all the essay body under the headings to be on the safe side. now I just have a fabulous contents page and all the headings I need and from intro to conclusion and need to write the essay itself. I put it through a plagiarism check and it found nothing

Tbf it crpssposted with you saying how you use it.
I tjink it's because we see so many people believing medical advice here that evetyone is on high alert😂

Btw influencers use it. Ask it to write insta post about something. Absolute match to a word😂

You specify your criteria in your prompts.

For example:

"
I want to write a short blog on well-being at work. It is a corporate environment where around 200 finance professionals are employed.

Please use professional, concise language with UK spelling and a semi-conversational tone."

You can then instruct it to regenerate after its first creation,

Eg: more professional pls
Include some bullets
Replace the word 'vanguard' with something more typical

Etc etc

I asked chat gpt to write an OP post about friends and texting. It’s interesting what it’s come up with it because it shows how common some problems are! Here it is:

So, here's the deal: I have a group of friends, and we're all pretty close. However, I've noticed that our texting habits have become a source of frustration for me. It seems like I'm the one who initiates conversations or checks in most of the time, and I often get short or delayed responses.

I understand that everyone has busy lives, and people can't always respond right away. But it feels like my friends are more active and responsive in other group chats or on social media, which makes me wonder if it's something specific about our group dynamics.

I've tried bringing up my feelings with them, but I don't want to come across as overly needy or demanding. I value these friendships a lot, and I don't want to create tension. However, it's starting to make me question whether they value our friendship as much as I do.

Have any of you faced a similar situation with friends and texting? How did you handle it, and were you able to improve the communication in your friendships? I'd love to hear your experiences and any advice you might have for dealing with this kind of issue.

Thank you for taking the time to read my post. Your insights and support mean a lot to me.

@JasmineButtercup quite a few posts on MN are AI lately. There is always masaive influx one week, then it goes quiet, then influx, quiet. But they are here. Not that hard to spot often, but some amend to make it harder

Cantfindthebeat thank you for that.

It’s amazing! I’ve used it to write job applications, not the whole thing but sections of a supporting statement. I’ll feed it info about myself, experience etc and ask it to draft a para about how I have demonstrated <insert competency>.

I use it at work too. Currently having to redraft someone’s terrible report so I’m using ChatGPT to summarise large sections of it and then using its summary to construct a new paper. I don’t copy and paste the output but use it as guidance on what to include.

It's not artificial intelligence, it's just very quick maths, it can't think for itself. Half of MN is written by it these days I swear!

I use it for:
Personally
-writing job cover letters
-Itinerary for half terms
-meal planning
-Giving me advice if I am stuck

Professionally/teacher:
-creating assemblies with suggestions for ppt slides (you have to know a bit about your topic but it’s a great starting point
-I imputed my topic keywords, info about the topic and it made me 10 x multiple choice questions for the end of the topic in seconds
-It writes my example essays for me - again I tweak but it saves me a lot of time writing it myself
Top ten lists for displays eg top ten novels of all time. Again I tweak but it saves me thinking time

Technically no…
search engines use cached data, we are just used to them being updated quickly, but no search engine has the ability to search the internet live - would need a ridiculous amount of power…

chatGPT has always only been just another search engine with a more ‘real language’ interface, it has no originality and can only provide answers based on the data it has seen, there is zero actual intelligence in AI

so just a search engine and historically an out of date one - though as mentioned by @TheCatterall it is increasingly more up to date in the data it uses…

the scary part is not that it has intelligence but that neither it nor many who use it have intelligence… that people trust it or believe it to be accurate is scary!

I work in IT, coding / building websites etc and have had access since it was an unknown closed beta programme, it is yet to come back with a good response to tests we have tried, even basic code requests which have answers widely available in the internet are wrong…

what it will drive is even faster a race to a low level norm if people use it instead of putting in their own creativity… it can only feed off its own content or what it can find, so the more that uses it to create content the more self-feeding the process and the less originality that will be created - machines dumbing down the masses!

I’m just back from a city break. The itinerary was planned by chatGPT I told it what sort of things I like doing, when I arrived and where I was staying. It gave me a plan which I then tweaked to make it perfect.

it’s great for starting you off with an idea. The more detailed the prompts you give it, the better the responses.

That was because your prompt wasn’t very good and you didn’t give it very clear instructions and examples of your style.

also, writing one post is a bit pointless because by the time you’ve given chat gpt a great prompt, you could’ve written it yourself. But what if you asked it to write 20, 200, 800?

I just started experimenting with it and so far:

It's great for creating alternative versions of existing text in different tones
Social posts are not great (depending on subject) but the hash tags are amazing
It's good at forming structure for reports, content, blogs etc and giving phrases or ideas that I wouldn't have come up with, without a lot of thought

Hard info and facts are very untrustworthy 😂 I asked it to write a blog with some historical information in, and it created a short fantasy novel
It doesn't do humour

It has its place. If you think about the off ness of the AI generated art pieces that are around, that gives an insight into what it outputs, it passes, until you look a bit closer and it doesn't. It will be interesting to see how it's usage develops.

I used it to write supporting statements when I was applying for jobs. I had a 100% success rate with getting an interview and was offered two jobs. We run a TShirt printing sideline and use it to get ideas for slogans.

I’ve found it really useful for explaining how to do things I’m stuck with in steps. For example, how do I do this very specific task in Excel/Power BI. It’s frustrating when you’re not sure exactly how to word things to filter through all of the rubbish on the internet, and I’ve found that Chat GPT is much better at understanding what it is that I want rather than just picking out words that I’ve used and bringing back something entirely different, which is what Google does. Maybe I’m just not very good at articulating what I want, but Chat GPT is good at working it out and telling me what steps I need to take!

I tend to find even Microsoft doesn’t explain things as clearly as Chat GPT!

I use it to write work emails too. I'm rubbish at it so AI really helps there.

DH uses it to create maths work sheets for the children. It's really good at it apparently.

No problem.

It's fun to experiment.

And as with everything - the clearer you are with what you want, the more appropriate the output will be.

There are now jobs for Generative AI Prompt Engineers - I quite fancy that!

It can be accessed as an app or directly from the internet
The latest version is charged for but there is also a free version

The latest capabilities are currently in the paid version GPT 4 and the latest free version is GPT 3.5

https://chat.openai.com/

Thank you @tommika super helpful!