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The recent chat bot advances have pretty much changed my life. I used to get anxiety by receiving mails and IMs, sometimes even from friends. I lost friendships over not replying. My main issue being that I am sometimes get completely stuck in a loop of how to formulate things in the best way to the point of just abandoning the contact. I went to therapy for that and it helped. But the LLM advancements of the recent years have been a game changer.

Now I plop everything into ChatGPT, cleaning out personal information as much as possible, and let the machine write. Often I'll make some adjustments but just having a starting point has changed my life.

So, my answer, I use it all the fucking time.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Never and if I found out someone did this to me I would be very insulted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'll use the preset responses sometime for Google but that's as far as it goes. It's very cool that you've found a way to help your anxiety by using it though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Me? When I use text communication? Never. Closest I get to using AI is letting a trusted acquaintance look over the message if I'm communicating with organisations. But beyond that? Nope.

I'm with the guy who's at the op of the thread as of me typing. "If you can't genuinely talk with me without the need for an LLM then I'd say we weren't really friends to begin with." ~@mriormro

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I only use AI to search for words I know the definition of but not the word

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Never, I like to use AI by itself, but not on other people. I'm human, not a robot. I can type my own replies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Only if I'm writing something very long. Otherwise it's not worth the effort.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty often here, if I have an obscure question that is unlikely to receive clarification from the community, I'll look it up using ai, check the article, share that.

Case in point, I just got curious about using quantum entanglement to get around communicating faster than the speed of light, and rather than ask and waitv to get lucky enough for a scientist to reach out, I asked bing and read a cool article

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Never done that, I used AIs for help in essays, but never for personal massages

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Definitely use it sometimes to see what a mathematical formula thinks the right tone is for the kind of email I want to write for example

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a sidequest in Like A Dragon Gaiden that literally mocks the danger of using AI to do this. I don't know your position but I'm sure your friends aren't gonna mind if you just send them a sentence response.

I've found in my life the more I think about how I should reply the more likely I am to say something they dislike, I'll overthink and add something that infers I'm not talking about X. And the reply will come back "If you aren't talking about X, why did you bring it up?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am using Github Copilot to automatically generate commit messages. So far so good 😊

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I used it once to tone down a comment I thought was too cutting. Edited, of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If I have to write out instructions for something in a work email, I will sometimes get chatgpt to write the instructions for me and then test / edit as needed.

Generally Im not a fan of wordy LLM writing though... Mainly only use it as a coding tool while simultaneously working on my patience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Never, unless the quick replies on my texting app is considered AI. I only use it to answer yes and no questions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

My problem is that I don't like letters, email and the ten other messaging apps that I'm obliged to maintain. I like commenting on Lemmy, contact me here.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

no (i wrote the no looking at my nose

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Hey there! While I don't use ChatGPT to generate full responses for me, I do find it super handy for refining my ideas and finding the right words. Sometimes I get stuck in the same loop of formulating things, and having ChatGPT as a creative companion helps me break through those mental roadblocks. I also use it to summarize and analyze others' comments, making the process of crafting responses a lot smoother. It's like having a linguistic sidekick! How about you? Do you have any specific ways you leverage the power of language models?

(This response was written for me by ChatGPT after I explained to it how I make use of it. I don't think it got it quite right, but it wouldn't be as funny if I edited it any, so there it is.)

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