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LAS14

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Fri Dec 5, 2025, 11:07 AM Yesterday

How do you use ChatGPT and others like it in your daily life? [View all]

I think I may have posted here about the importance of not getting sucked into feeling like there's an entity there. I discipline myself not to say please and thank you. But I do find myself using it on a daily basis. In order of frequency.

1 - Where can I watch a show on TV, and how many episodes comprise a story arc. It's usually accurate, but sometimes just plain wrong.

2 - How to navigate my phone and web sites. It's very good.

3 - Pure curiosity. "What is the daily hour to hour life of an LLM cleaner like?" I take these answers with spoonfuls of salt. I got the idea for "cleaning" from an earlier quesry about LLMs.

What do you call something like "ChatGPT?" Answer, an LLM assistant.

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I don't. I avoid it like the plague. Ocelot II Yesterday #1
agree completely. poison. ret5hd Yesterday #5
I also don't use any of them Dave says 23 hrs ago #38
Ditto. I never touch it. CanonRay 19 hrs ago #57
I haven't had occasion to use it at all biophile Yesterday #2
Zero obamanut2012 Yesterday #3
Examples? nt LAS14 Yesterday #8
Ask and Ye Shall Receive ruet 23 hrs ago #35
Nope. Coventina Yesterday #4
Never even thought MuseRider Yesterday #6
Very little. I try to avoid it. mwmisses4289 Yesterday #7
I've found that for the little things I've listed it's usually accurate. I treat it... LAS14 Yesterday #14
It's more like a slick lying very limited Google. Ms. Toad 23 hrs ago #23
I mostly use it for help with coding EdmondDantes_ Yesterday #9
Oh, right. I regularly copy a matrix... LAS14 Yesterday #15
Please don't assume any answers from it or the others are correct. Even on simple things where even the online news hlthe2b Yesterday #10
I have found it to be extremely useful. Disaffected Yesterday #11
So you're fine with it having been trained on stolen intellectual property? You don't care about highplainsdem 23 hrs ago #28
Good grief, Disaffected 23 hrs ago #32
I don't Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday #12
I typed in, "Deer in the headlights," gab13by13 Yesterday #13
I wish I knew how to put a Ha Ha emoji here. Ha Ha!! LAS14 Yesterday #16
lol! bamagal62 22 hrs ago #44
When it first appeared, I used it a few times to brainstorm story ideas tinrobot Yesterday #17
Never intentionally. yardwork Yesterday #18
lol why would I use an earth-burning plagiarism machine that's unreliable WhiskeyGrinder Yesterday #19
Not at all. And have no plans to. stopdiggin Yesterday #20
It's pretty easy to proof the questions I put to it in categories 1 and 2. As for... LAS14 20 hrs ago #53
Aside from pretty thorough testing when it first came out, I don't. Ms. Toad Yesterday #21
Never used Chat GPT. Have used AI to figure out how to prepare a piece of allegorical oracle Yesterday #22
I don't have any idea how to use it. WestMichRad 23 hrs ago #24
What should you call it? An illegally trained plagiarism tool that dumbs you down while harming the environment. highplainsdem 23 hrs ago #25
Quite simply, I don't DFW 23 hrs ago #26
Never intentionally Mossfern 23 hrs ago #27
Well...I guess ChatGPT is the new Olive Garden radicalleft 23 hrs ago #29
There is a difference. Ms. Toad 23 hrs ago #42
I use it quite a bit crigda 23 hrs ago #30
Was this reply generated by ChatGPT???? nt LAS14 20 hrs ago #54
LLMs like GPT are restricted by "Safety guardrails" so they don't offend anyone. That's the cause of most hallucinations Hellbound Hellhound 23 hrs ago #31
Of all the reasons given for LLM hallucinations, guardrails have never been mentioned in all the highplainsdem 23 hrs ago #36
Sounds like you've got some reading to do, then. Hellbound Hellhound 23 hrs ago #39
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No need to get personal here, mate. My principles are just fine, exactly where they belong. Hellbound Hellhound 23 hrs ago #43
The AI companies knew they were guilty of IP theft and copyright infringement. There's plenty of highplainsdem 22 hrs ago #48
We'll just have to agree to disagree, mate. Hellbound Hellhound 21 hrs ago #49
I think I know what an IP address is, but what is IP theft? nt LAS14 20 hrs ago #55
They mean 'intellectual property' in this case of "IP" Jack Valentino 18 hrs ago #58
Thanks nt LAS14 10 hrs ago #59
It is great Cosmocat 23 hrs ago #33
Try very hard not. sinkingfeeling 23 hrs ago #34
It's a crutch for the feeble-minded bucolic_frolic 23 hrs ago #37
I do not use it nor approve of it's usage. John Coktosten 23 hrs ago #41
I don't even know how. bamagal62 22 hrs ago #45
I don't use it. I don't use any AI attached to any of my apps. chia 22 hrs ago #46
It's banned from my private universe. hunter 22 hrs ago #47
Other than a handful of times out of shear curiosity, I haven't touched it. Tommy Carcetti 21 hrs ago #50
I have not used it for my daily personal life, but have used it to help write stuff for work. beaglelover 20 hrs ago #51
As little as humanly possible Jilly_in_VA 20 hrs ago #52
Corporations that want to pretend they have customer service use AI a lot. hunter 19 hrs ago #56
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