to find that ChatGPT is saving me tons of time at work?

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I have so much more work-life balance now thanks to ChatGPT that is making mincemeat of the mundane parts of the job. It will proof read, put together emails, produce critiques, minutes and actions points, analyse finances all in the matter of seconds and much more.

Work was done by 2pm so I had a lovely afternoon in the sun because all my tasks got completed so quickly.

And no, AI can't take over my job completely as it involves critical face to face interaction and other specialist skills which AI cannot do.

I am not jigging about it to work! I leave good amounts of time before completing the task so it is not done too quickly.

So..as an utter luddite how would I use AI to take the minutes at a meeting. Please explain in idiot speak.

I record the meeting. Then upload into transcribing app. Then copy and paste into AI and bingo beautiful minutes with action points. I had the minutes ready 10 minutes after the meeting had ended

We ( a large global corporate) have MS copilot. We record meetings on teams, press the meeting notes option. For my meetings I then read through, correct t any errors in ames etc. And make sure the action points are correct, the post it in the meeting chat. Been doing that for6 months already

Also, I am a senior director, haven't had an EA for four years, nor a graphics team for three. I use Beautiful AL for power point, as i am useless. I loaded up our brand template l, which it incorporates into the templates, of which there are hundreds. It has automated diags, like wheel and spoke, org charts, timelines etc Now, that saves me hours.

Exactly what I do. Why wouldn’t you!

Alternatively, people could just email their talking points directly to the AI and cut you out of the loop. I don't see what value you are adding?

It still needs looking over but the checking part is a tiny fraction of the time taken by AI to produce minutes.

Minutes is not the only part of people's jobs. It will comes up for me a few times a year so no point cutting me out of the loop.

It should be considered that AI models are bought by mega corporations - the information put into them is not going into a safe, secure, anonymous void. It is recorded and used to train future models, and can be used by whoever owns the AI, or owns rights to it.

For example:

'The US Department of Defense on Monday awarded OpenAI a $200m contract to put generative artificial intelligence (AI) to work for the US military.'

And:

'The startup claims that all use of AI for the military will be consistent with OpenAI usage guidelines, which are determined by OpenAI itself.' (point being, it sets its own usage guidelines - no regulation).

The reason this is relevant is because anything you enter into AI gets used to train it. Recording meetings and inputting all of it into an AI isn't ethical unless you've asked everyone's consent and understand who you're funeling all of that information to.

I swear the downfall of humanity is going to be convenience. We'll do anything apparently if it makes things "easier".

www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/17/openai-military-contract-warfighting

Sometime last week I commented that it had no idea what it was on about ; based on my dealings with it last year. Prompted me to check and have a look again.

Bloody hell! It’s gotten clever. Arguably more clever than 99% of the field 🫣

MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law

Don’t know about programming, but brains are use it or lose it. You don’t use yours, then decline is what happens. Thinking is good for us

I agree. However, there are a couple of simple changes users can make in their ChatGPT settings to stop it using their private data for training the LLM, but people are too ignorant or careless about their data privacy to make the simple changes required i.e. change their settings to select "temporary conversations" only (or incognito mode) and uncheck the data control "Improve model for everyone".

But it's getting that from us. It looks clever because it's gathering from more of humanity.

I dont know. I asked it about a new topic which it hadn’t refined yet. It even asked me which reply was better for the first few responses.

I then discussed the data it was sending me through its research and asked it openly to use its intelligence to think about this and ask there view on it.

It came out with views which 99% our industry dont think; but are true. And arent published. It was a logic and philosophical question basically; based on a mixture of science, legislation and real life application. And some fucking how. It’s speaking more sense than our whole field and government.

It’s actually really blown me away to the point I think AI is actually going to get so clever, so fast that we wont be able to communicate with it properly as its going to be too clever and talking at another level which we are incapable of piecing together. I say that because last year it was incapable of stringing together cohoerent sentences and this year I am shocked to say it is capable of original intelligent rounded thinking. More so than most humans arguably.

And to edit. Trust me I am shocked that I am writing that. Last week I was on this thread laughing at it

This morning AI tried to tell me that 10 was a multiple of 4. So it's not all progress.

It told me it had been 3 working days since the 13th June today. I hadn’t even asked it that. And it Completely made up wording that isn't in the SENDCOP

Because of this thread I set up a Zoom meeting using Otter.ai to take the transcript.
I have to say I am staggered! It summarised the meeting perfectly,gave me the positives and negatives( which were spot on) and set up action points. The transcript itself had errors in but not enough to lose the gist of cause confusion. It will take a few minutes editing to tidy it up. My flabber is gasted!

I never dread minutes anymore!

Indeed. Not only are they not "clever" they actually have no comprehension of human language as they are simply autocomplete machines i.e. much larger versions of the predictive text on our mobile phones - because that's all they are doing; predicting the next plausible word in a sentence based on terabytes of data they've been trained on. They have no understanding of the human experience and nor are they capable of logical reasoning, which is why it's particularly depressing to read that some people are using LLMs as "counsellors", FFS. 🙄

Rude

Like it or not it’s here and isn’t going away. Refusing to accept it won’t make your job anymore secure.

Really??? if you think that was rude you must live a charmed life!

OP’s original post was a summary of how AI was making her job easier. She posted it in “AIBU” so I was simply asking her what she thought she was being unreasonable about.

I use Microsoft Pilot and I always check the source of the information before using it.

I’m also using the paid work version and it’s amazing, saving me loads of time too 😊