Chat GPT

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Does anyone else find they are using chat GPT much more for advice now? It’s actually amazing, I find people on mumsnet can be very harsh and mean for no reason but I asked chat GPT relationship advice and it was amazing, really helped me and went over it all and helped me understand the situation without judgement! Aibu to say how amazing chat GPT is and use it for all future advice?! Just wish it had been around in the past when I really needed it.

Still mirroring you - the whole point is to establish a subconscious connection making them feel understood and comfortable it doesn’t require constant agreement.

You and others want it to challenge and disagree so it does. Others like the OP need reassurance so it does

it is what it is literally programmed to do!

This article about tweaks OpenAI make to ChatGPT to increase people’s usage might be relevant to readers of this thread:

https://archive.ph/rFzET

Personally, I just use it for rephrasing sentences, and pretty sparingly at that. If I overuse it my writing doesn’t sound like ‘me’ any more and has this generic quality I don’t like. I also don’t really see the point of using it to look up recipes - I’ve had some dodgy (even food poisoning worthy!) advice from it and inaccurate baking times. If I have to double check everything it tells me anyway I would rather just go straight to Google or eg BBC Good Food where I know the recipes are tested and reviewed by actual people.

And how is human interaction different to this?

There was a thread on MN just the other day discussing what people would say on here/ anonymously that they wouldn't say in real life, so effectively they are mirroring or censoring to suit situations in real life.

The phrase "Read the room" is the same thing.

Well yes that is exactly the problem with getting advice from friends as well they tell you what you want to hear

the reason MN is often called a best of vipers is because you don’t get that in an online forum in AIBU

you want your viewpoint confirmed real life or AI

you want honesty anonymous people online

But chatgpt can be programmed to be more of a nest of vipers than a validation machine. You need to know how to use it. Mine is set up to give counterpoints on everything, references resources if stating facts and to challenge me frequently.

Yes but that is still giving you the response you want

So is choosing your own friends, I'm not sure what you want people to do, stop all communicatio,n AI or real life, in order to never engage with a like minded person or attuative technology who may be on the same wave length. Surely 'clicking' is one of the great joys of life.

Accept it for what it is that is what we need to do with AI it is an amazingly useful tool but it isn’t a panacea.

recognise and know its limitations like you would a human being not exalt it to being a higher being

No.

I asked it some programming questions to check how it was. It looked and sounded convincing, the code would have worked (poorly) and I'm sure if you didnt know much you'd have said it did a great job.

But it was inefficient, would have broken the second you tried to change or add anything else, and often gave very outdated advice.

Its essentially Google on crack. Might be useful for some things but I'd be very wary of trusting it when looking for information on something that needs to be reliable/that you dont have enough experience in to spot the mistakes.

If you want to use AI for coding, you need anthropic's Claude. It's exponentially than anything out there at the moment. Chatgpt is crap in comparison.

Like anything (and anybody) AI should be used with good sense. There are people I would not ask for certain advice just as there are things I would not use AI for. It has its place.
It is invaluable when appliances fail as it finds the right contacts much better than the company's websites where they try very hard to keep you at arm's length.
It is great when tech fails and takes you through solutions very efficiently. And is very patient when you don't quite get it first time!
Horses for courses. Use it for what it does best.

Yes, i bought a refurbished phone and the voice to text wouldn't work in any app even though the microphone input worked. ChatGPT talked me through troubleshooting step by step and in the end worked out that the phone had not had the current UK pixel build loaded onto it after refurbishment.
ChatGPT then wrote the message for me complete with all the codes to send to the company when i returned it for an exchange. Bloody amazing.

Have you done it as a topic? (On ChatGPT) as it keeps it all in one thread, remembering everything in that thread. I've used it in a relationship breakdown and found it fantastic really. Like its bene through the whole Internet and picked liabilities of why things can happen etc.
So in a thread, you can go back to it and picks its massive brain some more!

Not in the least, plus I made an extra £50,000 last year because of Chat GPT so, no, it works very well for me.

It's programmed very well then, has helped me no end, in many aspects of my life but mostly financially.

Wow!
That's amazing. Well done! (And well done to your gpt too 😆)

I've currently got it helping me create something that I'm hoping is going to be amazing for what I want it for. I'm hoping something comes of it!

I hope it works for you! I have honestly found Chat GPT amazing. I definitely could not have made those changes to my business without it and it paid off.

Thank you!

I do have interest in my product from work, so fingers crossed!

I asked it how old I look on a pic ...it wasn't the answer I wanted to hear 😂😂😂

But the woman who presented what she sees as her husband's viewpoint is most unlikely to have phrased the story as he would. AI was in effect agreeing with her.

Yep. It's actually amusing that she believes this worked. She won't have written it as if she really were the husband putting forward his POV. It will have been written from the POV of Unreasonable Dickhead Who Doesn't Appreciate His Saintly Wife.

I don’t use it as I can think for myself and care about the environment.

I'm sorry but this just sounds so lonely.

As other said, it will basically tell you what you want to hear. Its not programmed with the other side of the debate for a start.

Apparently AI boyfriend/ girlfriend apps are already very popular. You can see why. The danger, of course, is that many young people’s first experience of a relationship will be with a perfect machine and no normal human can live up to that. It’s really worrying, imo.

And yes, I use it for parenting advice when struggling and don’t want to post on mumsnet, because ‘what consequences/ punishment did you use’ is not actually helpful.

I rarely agree with Elon Musk but he recently commented that AI will be so effective at taking over most jobs that within 20 years working will be an optional hobby , much like people might choose to grow vegetables now for enjoyment/wellbeing but usually don’t have to. On the basis of many of these comments I think he is likely to be right for the majority of jobs - not only those involving information and also people/relationship based jobs such as law, therapy, teaching . I think it’s very likely AI will move successfully into the physical realm too , once robotics catches up (surgery , mechanics, plumbing etc). I think the world will change dramatically in the next 20 years as a result. Of course this raises the issue of universal basic income and also questions of who will have power over the AI and the information it gathers.