To ask what you use ChatGPT for?

[OhWhatsTheBloodyPoint]

I may be late to the party, but recently discovered it and wonder what others use it for?

When I’ve been at a loss I’ve given it a list of food in my fridge/freezer/cupbiards and it’s made me recipes.

What to do with my car. Much more info is willing given than a car mechanic. I have time digest, research its answers and come up with follow up questions.

Also, I asked a cobbler what to do with with my birksenstocks with crumbling cork. He said nothing could be done. Chat gpt said use cork/wood filler, followed by the birkenstock cork sealant.

Basically, I will use and trust chat gpt ahead of a male tradie talking shit to a 50-year-old woman. At last!!!

I don't.

Language translations and explanations.

So good it is hard to describe, unless you are language learning yourself. Put it this way, DH is rubbish in comparison.

AI is known to mistranslate names and numbers and turn negatives into positives, so don't use it for anything important

Creating pictures of our family as superhero’s and helping my mum plan her new kitchen 🤣

Really good for baking!! I will ask for a recipe very specific and it always delivers!!
for example : ‘can I have a recipe for 6 healthy banana muffins with no eggs or baking powder and all measurements in cups’
so it creates the perfect recipe with your ingredients and the right quantities all written down so no having to half measurements or google how many ml in a cup etc

It's an environmental disaster, it will probably lose lots of people their jobs, anything written by it us obviously not written by a human. Fuck it!

I found it useful once to validate my exhaustion - I told it everything I had to fit into an average week and it told me I would have 4-5h sleep every night forever…..

other than that it’s used more time teaching it than doing a task myself - like a really shit junior at work - but with a bigger environmental footprint and zero banter

I use it at work to 'professionalise' my emails, to make them sound more polite 🤣🤣🤣, to help me pass online tests 🤫🤫🤫🤫. At home it's used to help me draft good complaint letters.

I'm going on holiday in a couple of weeks. I don't drive and will be travelling by train and I don't know the area I am visiting at all. I am planning on mostly cooking at 'home' when I'm there. I asked where the nearest shops were for gourmet and local produce - delis and farm shops, how you get to them on public transport, bus timetables and whether I could pay on the buses or needed to buy tickets in advance.
I then checked the info given, but AI gave me a really good place to start and I had been struggling to find the information on my own.

Today I was bored at work waiting to meet someone and I asked it why it was so fucking hot.

I've used it to choose some running shoes (not for me, dd wanted some cheap ones). I've been studying this year, and I've asked it a couple of specific questions when I wasn't really sure quite what to start googling to find out.

My dad plays around with it loads, and I'm very aware from that that it's really easy to get it to say totally wrong things. But as a starting point it can be useful.

At Christmas my dd asked it to tell us 25 jokes about family. 24 of them were "why shouldn't you trust atoms? They make up everything" which did make us laugh a lot, to be fair.

I used it to try and write some comedy skits. They weren't very funny tho...

I’m late to the party too but to appeal parking tickets

I used an AI to create a song. It's not bad, but it was only 30 seconds long! Have a listen
www.udio.com/songs/3ypczhM2k15D9R2GMxqNeR

I used it to write poetry. This was back when it had not long come out. I tried to get it to write a poem about my lazy narc of a dad... and it refused and said I had to respect his life choices. Have not been able to use it since. Comes up with an error.

I do use Bing sometimes when a weird idea pops in my heads and I want to see it in picture form.

Not ChatGPT specifically, but...I often use Github Copilot for code assistance when I can't be bothered thinking my way through something, or I just need a couple of ideas.

I also tend to use a local LLM on my server here at the house for more private stuff (code that I don't want other people to see), and for day-to-day stuff - ideas for gifts etc. It's not as high-quality as ChatGPT or Copilot, but it's good enough - and it's a lot less costly to run in terms of money and the environment.

I do run a forum (much smaller than this one, not for profit), and I also use my local instance to scan the day's posts overnight to flag any potential Online Safety Act breaches. That sort of thing would be prohibitively expensive with a commercial LLM, but totally do-able with a decent graphics card at home.

My friend used it to make pictures of her pets with various hairstyles. Hours of fun!

I didn’t understand my recent blood test results and ChatGPT explained it so well. It has given me reassurance if I’m honest.

Same! Saves me so much time in work. Plans, social media captions, checklists, reports, presentations, press releases, newsletter stories, general business advice. It's great when I'm feeling uninspired. I've also used it to critique my business social media channels and provide suggestions for improvement. My output is undeniably much higher as a result of using Chat GPT and I really believe that a lot of people will be left behind if they don't get onboard with AI, simply because their output will be lower compared with those who do.

I use it for cooking recipes. Asked today how to make pizza dough (I've made it many times but always forget the exact proportions of each ingredients). You do have to read it with a critical eye, as sometimes it suggests wrong amounts. So I wouldn't recommand for a beginner. But for someone who knows their stuff and just needs a reminder, it's great.

Mainly asking about hair styles, make up.

Not much. I was getting new curtains but I was stuck on what colour to get, so I got it to generate mock ups in each colour. It worked for two colours and not for the other two. Then I tried the same for wall art but that didn’t work as well because it couldn’t size it correctly.

More recently I had an odd mark on my leg so I asked it what the mark was. It just told me stuff I’d already googled.

Absolutely everything but sometimes it gets things slightly wrong. Most of the time it’s helpful. I’ve just asked it to find me a new dog insurer and it’s done a grand job. And to the PP who asked about whether I’m worried about how much water it uses, she answer is no, not really.

I’ve never used it and wouldn’t know how to begin!