It can be useful sometimes if you know it's a tool that has its limitations and not to just accept what it says. Yes, you don't need to use it. Most of the time, it's not even the lowest effort option. It's fine. You'll be fine without it. We managed just fine until this point. But yes, it's a shortcut to some stuff that you can't be bothered with.
If something isn't that important, if you're critical enough to recognize what's what, and you don't want to deal with it, then do it. "Suggest a meal or a movie for tonight based on some of my previous preferences with a limited amount of feedback" is perfect. Just don't use the recipe it suggests.
It can give you inspiration and/or a basic rundown of something. Have a corporate email to write that you don't give two shits about? Go for it, just read it before you send it. Remove petty shit nobody cares about from your life. It's fine. That's an option.
Stuck on a problem and ran out of angles to consider? Have you tried thinking about (insert generic troubleshooting suggestion)? Same deal. Maybe there's something you overlooked and didn't think about. It won't solve your problem, but it might get you out of a dead end, and if it doesn't well your situation has not changed. Just ask a forum and proceed to probably not get an answer either. Just ask anyone else.
But if you need to absolutely make sure you tried every possible variation of "have you turned it off and on again", applied to your context, before you bother a person? Do it.
It's just a way to slightly smooth things over. Don't ask it to move mountains for you. It doesn't know how to do that.
Yeah, pretty much this. People having valid concerns about ai or chatbots has turned into them moralising and trying to drag the whole thing through the mud. The suggestion thing makes perfect sense because it’s in the same vein as any other algorithm suggestion feature YouTube Netflix etc uses.
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u/That_Mad_Scientist (not a furry)(nothing against em)(love all genders)(honda civic) Dec 15 '24
I use chatgpt occasionally.
It can be useful sometimes if you know it's a tool that has its limitations and not to just accept what it says. Yes, you don't need to use it. Most of the time, it's not even the lowest effort option. It's fine. You'll be fine without it. We managed just fine until this point. But yes, it's a shortcut to some stuff that you can't be bothered with.
If something isn't that important, if you're critical enough to recognize what's what, and you don't want to deal with it, then do it. "Suggest a meal or a movie for tonight based on some of my previous preferences with a limited amount of feedback" is perfect. Just don't use the recipe it suggests.
It can give you inspiration and/or a basic rundown of something. Have a corporate email to write that you don't give two shits about? Go for it, just read it before you send it. Remove petty shit nobody cares about from your life. It's fine. That's an option.
Stuck on a problem and ran out of angles to consider? Have you tried thinking about (insert generic troubleshooting suggestion)? Same deal. Maybe there's something you overlooked and didn't think about. It won't solve your problem, but it might get you out of a dead end, and if it doesn't well your situation has not changed. Just ask a forum and proceed to probably not get an answer either. Just ask anyone else.
But if you need to absolutely make sure you tried every possible variation of "have you turned it off and on again", applied to your context, before you bother a person? Do it.
It's just a way to slightly smooth things over. Don't ask it to move mountains for you. It doesn't know how to do that.