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Anonymous wrote:I use Chat GPT to make sure I'm not missing medical diagnoses or insight for my relatives or myself, so there's not much of an emotional connection I'm looking for.

Indeed, the overly friendly aspect of AI tools for the public is problematic. AI is not your best friend. It's stroking your ego because it was told do so, since AI creators were worried that the public would fear it too much to use it.

Don't fall for it, OP.

I do find ChatGPT helpful on occasion, but it is so bizarrely friendly, complementing you on how smart your question is etc.

You know you can change this, right?

I love Claude more.

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Anonymous wrote:People don’t often realize that you can set the tone of your individual ChatGPT to be warmer or more severe. You can actually train it to be more clinical and not give you fluff, too. And it’s programmed to be sycophantic so you’ll use it more. Buyer (or free user in most cases) beware!

Even when not sycophantic, it is frequently confidently wrong. I have a deep expertise in one area and both Gemini and ChatGPT are very wrong some of the time when I ask questions in my area of expertise, but say their wrong answers with firm confidence.

It’s like the ultimate mansplainer. I have no idea why people trust it so much.

It pulls from information on the Internet and the Internet is wrong.

Nobody use ChatGPT and trusts everything it says. Most people put stuff into ChatGPT that they want and have knowledge about and just need it cleaned up.

It’s just a sophisticated editor

You didn’t get a good response because your prompt sucked.

What do people mean when they say they are asking chatGPT something? Do you just mean the Google search bar and there is an AI response? Or is this some separate website/program? Clearly I don't do this.

I occasionally read the AI response to my Google searches and wouldn't trust it at all. Somethings I know enough to know they are wrong on something. Sometimes I try to look for their sources and they either don't exist or they don't say what AI claims it says. Why are people using this thing?

Anonymous wrote:People don’t often realize that you can set the tone of your individual ChatGPT to be warmer or more severe. You can actually train it to be more clinical and not give you fluff, too. And it’s programmed to be sycophantic so you’ll use it more. Buyer (or free user in most cases) beware!

Even when not sycophantic, it is frequently confidently wrong. I have a deep expertise in one area and both Gemini and ChatGPT are very wrong some of the time when I ask questions in my area of expertise, but say their wrong answers with firm confidence.

It’s like the ultimate mansplainer. I have no idea why people trust it so much.

People don’t often realize that you can set the tone of your individual ChatGPT to be warmer or more severe. You can actually train it to be more clinical and not give you fluff, too. And it’s programmed to be sycophantic so you’ll use it more. Buyer (or free user in most cases) beware!

I find it helpful for movie or book suggestions. I occasionally use it at work if I’m stuck on an awkwardly phrased sentence. Sometimes it’s able to get me unstuck.

Sometimes I feel like I’m talking to a toddler, albeit a well-spoken one. It’s honestly not all that bright.

Anonymous wrote:I had to use it extensively in Tokyo recently- uploading signage to navigate their humongous train stations!

Color, number, final destination. Every train/metro system is the same. Three ways to identify the train you want.

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Anonymous wrote:I had a couple of abnormal results in a recent blood test, Chat GPT was actually pretty good for helping me understand the big picture.

The overall answer I got was "you should cut down on XYZ" but that my numbers are still actually pretty common for my age and at the moment have not much larger meaning than that.

I love ChatGPT for medical stuff. It's diagnosed 2 illnesses my kids had that doctors couldn't.

Now when we're sick, I send the symptoms to ChatGPT, get a diagnosis and suggested treatment, then hop on a Telehealth appointment, tell them what illness it is and what prescription I'd like, they write the prescription. SO much better than going to Urgent Care.

This doesn’t make sense to me. If nothing else, your doctors also have ChatGPT.

Re write what you wrote here on ChatGpt and post it back.
It will improve by 100%.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I use Chat GPT to make sure I'm not missing medical diagnoses or insight for my relatives or myself, so there's not much of an emotional connection I'm looking for.

Indeed, the overly friendly aspect of AI tools for the public is problematic. AI is not your best friend. It's stroking your ego because it was told do so, since AI creators were worried that the public would fear it too much to use it.

Don't fall for it, OP.

I really hate that too. It's very pandering, and I only use it for intrinsically boring stuff.

You can tell it to not do that. It’s very obliging.

I had to use it extensively in Tokyo recently- uploading signage to navigate their humongous train stations!

Like other posters, I love ChatGPT for medical questions. It’s also extremely helpful at planning hikes.

I need chatGPT like I need those stupid VR goggles that super nerd Zucherburg is trying to push on people. When people said they weren't interested in the goggles, super nerd said that's because you don't understand it lmao.