ChatGPT

I love it and use it most days. It has helped me with health issues and has redesigned my garden.

Yes, it helps in so many ways but for me, the best has been, therapy wise. People say 'get a better therapist ' if your current one is not helping but that's not easy to do, especially financially, for me and even if I could afford it, no guarantee of a helpful outcome.

ChatGPT has been complicit in various suicide cases, helpfully (ahem) pointing out how to do it and being encouraging in actually doing it. Be very careful in using it as therapy!

I used it recently when I was feeling very frustrated with an aspect of my husband's behaviour, his endless fixing as a response to everything. It was actually very, very helpful, more than I expected.
You need to think what questions you want to ask. I ended up with a lot of useful links and possibilities of how to tackle the problem. I know people are doubtful about it but used thoughtfully, it's very good.

I hear people talking(online) about ChatGPT but have no idea how to access it , do you use it like google/ Alexa? Is it something you just type into a search engine then go from there or do download an app, I use a kindle device for my internet access.

62Granny, you can type in ChatGPT into your search bar or download the app. of the same name.

I use it basically for practical type questions eg:
- How much the work will cost and how should it be done on a (stolen by neighbours) bit of my garden. I wanted to see how they should do it and what it is due to cost them.

- Working out a fair price for a house

- Health issues (it is more oriented to conventional healthcare than I am though)

- Menu suggestions (though I do have to tell it to amend menus/recipes to cut out meat and then it's very prone to telling me vegan ideas - when I'm vegetarian). But it's handy.

- Where I can find the nearest person for whatever-it-is

- If I don't understand why people have acted the way they did it points out where it went wrong and how to deal with issues better (yep....even down to the checkouts arent problematic at the local Tesco...but they sometimes are at the local Aldi - ie pushy people). It didn't come out with the best suggestion of all - ie put my shopping trolley behind me at the checkout...so they can't try and shove me up. But it did have a noticeable number of useful phrases to use according to taste with "pushers" behind.

- Told me what the problem probably was with the lights flickering in my house when it's windy and what they needed to do to put it right and even gave a percentage probability as to how likely something was to fix the problem (now resolved).

- Told me what the cause of a current problem with my kitchen tap is and what the plumber needs to do to put it right and what sort of price to expect them to charge me.

So yep...it's not perfect and it gives out a wrong or less than full answer sometimes. But it's certainly very handy - both for practical issues and for "people behaving badly".

So - as long as I ignore the odd bit of "political correctness" or being unduly "cautious" it works out pretty well for providing useful answers.

Oreo

ChatGPT has been complicit in various suicide cases, helpfully (ahem) pointing out how to do it and being encouraging in actually doing it. Be very careful in using it as therapy!

There's obviously been "complaints". I just put in a query about that out of interest to see what it had to say and it's obviously been amended to suggesting people contact the Samaritans etc.

Good job I don't actually need to ask then in the event - as I found out how-to years ago just in case I ever needed to. It's sorta "mental savings" in my book - to know Life can never get that bad for me....as I could always leave within hours. So it's just a form of mental security - like savings in the bank just in case of need imo.

Just really discoved it today..Was unsure about using it,don't know why???🤣 Used it to suggest menus for Mediterranean Diet..brilliant. I think I could get quite addicted ....🤣🤣🤣

Yep...it's not bad for menu suggestions. So, for instance, I asked it for a fortnight's worth of meals to suit me and then it offered a shopping list for it (though I did find the quantities suggested were for a family - why? as I'd thought I made it plain enough I'm one person). So one does have to be aware of where it may need correcting.

62Granny

I hear people talking(online) about ChatGPT but have no idea how to access it , do you use it like google/ Alexa? Is it something you just type into a search engine then go from there or do download an app, I use a kindle device for my internet access.

You can download the app from Google play store if you have an android phone

The first time I heard of ChatGPT was in Richard Osman’s novel ‘We Solve Murders’, where the villain used it to disguise his identity. From that I assumed that it was a bit dodgy!!

I treat it with the same level of contempt as I do for those who 'ask Grok' on Twitter.

I prefer Google Gemini, but Chat GPT is okay

I use ChatGPT for therapy. Its very good. Also helpful for decision making. It wrote our response to a planning application from our neighbour and we are using it to communicate with the neighbour in the dispute. I tell it what I want to say and instruct it to write something diplomatic and non-confrontational. My DD uses it all the time at work.

Please don't ever forget that ChatGPT is a data mining opportunity for the creators. You are better off using another option, such as Microsoft CoPilot.

I would leave well alone.

Why ' leave well alone'?

PennyWhistle

Please don't ever forget that ChatGPT is a data mining opportunity for the creators. You are better off using another option, such as Microsoft CoPilot.

I would be wary of using ChatGPT as a virtual "therapist" personally.

So - I use it for practical day-to-day queries basically. The nearest I come to anything "personal" is to explain a bit of "bad behaviour" someone came out with and how to handle such behaviour if I come across it again (eg people being pushy at the Aldi checkout if I go there - as that has happened 3 times now...) and it did explain why they were badly behaved and how to deal with any such behaviour in future.

I've also asked it why a previous neighbour household stole a bit of my garden off me legally-speaking - as I could see no benefit to them whatsoever from doing so and in fact it made their house a LOT more difficult to sell because they'd started that up. Actually ChatGPT couldn't really see why they did it either....as it was so illogical and has landed that house with a BIG bill to pay to replace my retaining wall that is on that section (when it would have fallen to my house if they hadn't done that). So - confirmation of illogical behaviour and just how much that bill is going to be for the household there now (£10,000-£20,000).

It's useful sometimes when preparing for a tricky conversation

Crikey I'm way behind the line on this one! Never used it but it now it's making me wonder.

Maybe it could write my responses on Gransnet when I get furious with people- which is pretty much most of the time!

keepingquiet, you're joking, right?
If people on Gransnet make you furious you should try Mumsnet!

Madgran77

It's useful sometimes when preparing for a tricky conversation

yep - as stated - and even asks what way you want to slant a comment in order to best match your personality (eg those pushy people at Aldi tills). It rather picked out a combination of light humour and firmness as best suggestion for me.

Could have done with a quick check on the spot today when the windowcleaner I'd had the last few times was being pushy trying to get my business to clean my patio. I was pretty firm and told him I'd decided it was least likely to be a problem to me to do things my normal way (ie as per University city in Devon - rather than small town in West Wales) and so I was going to do so (ie ask him his exact how-to proposal and then research it). The message didn't get through to him - despite me repeating myself several times - I can feel another how-to-deal-with-someone google coming on from there (which will probably include polite but firm way to tell him where to get off). It was a cross purposes conversation - him saying "Other people do...." and that might be the way he operates here - but it is not the normal way to operate and so Chat GPT will be told "the tone is to be firm and very logical and fending him off from thinking he can tell women what to do (just because he seems to be used to operating that way here).

MarieElla

keepingquiet, you're joking, right?
If people on Gransnet make you furious you should try Mumsnet!

No thanks! It's much too late for that.