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.
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.
I have a problem with writing out my thoughts in a concise way that flows well. I can’t think of the correct word. I think it starts with “C”. So I use ChaGPT like so:
- I write my thoughts out as a stream of consciousness.
- I tell ChatGPt what I am trying to communcate.
- I paste the stream of consciousness.
- It assembles it as a reply formatted as a message or email.
- I read over it to ensure it got everything correct and worded everything the correct way.
- I tell it what I want changed or explain why I don’t like a certain part, and it adjusts as needed.
Then I edit the output as I need. I don’t always do the editing and just send the output, depends how I feel and how well it does. I am thinking I am just going to start appending a default “Due to my brain injury, ChatGPT may have assisted me in composing this message” in my email signature, with a link to a screenshot of my process on imgur or something.
I look at it like a psychologist or speech pathologist helping me write/assemble a letter. It’s awesome.
And I can usually tell immediately when something has been written by ChatGPT lol. Unless they’ve gone through and edited the whole thing.
I am against this. You are using chatbots to avoid your problem, I don’t think this is healthu.
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.
Never, unless the quick replies on my texting app is considered AI. I only use it to answer yes and no questions.
