Super useful when I have a half-baked idea or concept that I want to learn more about, but don't know the lingo. I can explain the idea and it'll give me terms to search.

Also, it gives pretty good ideas for debugging or potential fixes.

Not sure i'd ever "trust with my life", but it's a useful tool if you use it right.

I use it a lot to proofread my creative writing

it works okay as a fuzzy search over documentation.
...as long as you're willing to wait.
...and the documentation is freely available.
...and doesn't contain any sensitive information.
...and you very specifically ask it for page references and ignore everything else it says.

so basically, it's worse than just searching for one word and pressing "next" over and over, unless you don't know what the word is.

The only thing I have to worry about is not to waste my time to respond to LLM trolls in lemmy comments. People admitting to use LLM to me in conversation instantly lose my respect and I consider them lazy dumbfucks :p

I get an email from corporate about once a week that mentions it in some way. It gets mentioned in just about every all hands meeting. I don’t ever use it. No one on my team uses it. It’s very clearly not something that’s going to benefit me or my peers in the current iteration, but damn… it’s clear as day that upper management wants to use it but they don’t know how to implement it.

It's erased several tech jobs and replaced some helpforum commentors with bots to pretend their communities are alive and when you read their comments or 'suggestions' you can clearly tell, this isn't someone trying to help it's just a bot posting garbage pretending to help

Some of my coworkers show me their chatGPT generated drivel. They seem to be downright proud of that, like they would be gaming the system by using chatGPT instead of using their own head. However I think their daily work seems to consist of unnecessary corpo crap and they should really be fired and replaced with chatGPT.

I used it once to write a proclamation for work and what it spit out was mediocre. I ended up having to rewrite most of it. Now that I'm aware of how many resources AI uses, I refuse to use it, period. What it produces is in no way a good trade for what it costs.

For everyone saying it's gross to use AI for personal messages. It's 100% valuable for people with motivational challenges and people with social challenges to draft or edit responses. You can ask it to evaluate the tone and subtext, or even rephrase thing to have a more appropriate tone and subtext. Like you can type a note and ask " is this appropriate to share with a classmate?" It can help you communicate what you want to say.

In terms or presentation it's a life saver in for getting started. Make me an outline for a 15 minute presentation about a topic to an audience of freshman college students.

It's a god tier level up when used .

Here is one in action.

"condense this to 180 characters ChatGPT said:

AI helps with communication by drafting messages, adjusting tone, and offering presentation outlines. It’s a game-changer for those facing social or motivational challenges!"

"make the original more professional ChatGPT said:

Certainly! Here's a more professional version of your original post:

For those critical of using AI for personal communication, it's important to recognize its potential in aiding individuals with social or motivational challenges. AI can assist in drafting messages, refining tone, and ensuring appropriate subtext. For example, it can help assess whether a message is suitable for a particular recipient or rephrase it to achieve the desired tone. Additionally, AI can support in crafting structured outlines for presentations, making it an invaluable tool for clear and effective communication. When used effectively, AI can be a powerful resource for enhancing communication skills."

"Got it! Here's a more overt version that directly ties AI to the idea of challenging the ruling class:

For those critical of using AI for personal communication, it's important to recognize its potential in supporting individuals who aim to challenge the ruling class or dominant power structures. AI can assist in drafting messages, refining tone, and ensuring that communication aligns with these broader goals. For instance, it can help assess whether a message is suitable for a specific audience or rephrase it to be more impactful in advocating for social change. Additionally, AI can aid in creating structured outlines for presentations that challenge conventional narratives. Used strategically, AI becomes a powerful tool for both effective communication and political resistance. "

It's affected me by being really annoying to hear about in the news all the time.

It is getting more present at work every day, I keep having to hear even seniors how they "discussed" something with chatgpt or how they will ask it for help. Had to resolve some issue with devops a while back and they just kept pasting errors into chatgpt and trying out whatever it spewed back, which I guess wasn't that much different from me googling the same issue and spewing back whatever SO said.

I tried it myself and while it is neat for some simple repetitive things, I always end up with normal google searches or clicking on the sources because the problems I usually have to google for are also complicated problems that I need the whole original discussion and context too, not just a summary that might skip important caveats.

I dunno, I simultaneously feel old and out of touch, angry at myself for not just going with the flow and buying into it, but also disappointed in other people that rely on it without ever understanding that it's so flawed, unreliable and untrustworthy, and making people into worse programmers.

Its making the impact of bots more polarizing, turning social media into a self radicalizing tool.

ChatGPT has had absolutely zero impact on my work or personal life. I do not have any useful case for it whatsoever. I have used it for goofs before. That's about it. I cannot see it as a positive or negative influence...as it has had zero influence. I do get annoyed that every company and their mother is peddling worthless AI shit that most people have no use case for.

For me?

Nothing, other than "I tried it with ChatGPT" before they bothered with Documentation.

Fuck anyone who skips documentation

Generally, GitHub Copilot helps me type faster. Though sometimes it predicts something I'm don't expect and I have to slow down and analyze it to see if it seems to know something I don't. A small percentage of these cases are actually useful but the rest is usually noise. It's generally useful as long as you don't blindly trust it.

For my life, it's nothing more than parlor tricks. I like looking at the AI images or whipping one up for a joke in the chat, but of all the uses I've seen, not one of them has been "everyday useful" to me.

I genuinely appreciate being able to word my questions differently than old google, and specifying deeper into my doubts than just a key word search.

It’s great to delve into unknown topics with, then to research results and verify. I’ve been trying to get an intuitive understanding of cooking ingredients and their interaction with eachother and how that relates to the body, ayurvedically.

I think it’s a great way to self-educate, personally.