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[–] nueonetwo@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

I've used it a couple times to draft reports, most of what it writes is pretty garbage but it's good for generating general filter sentences and structure and stuff that I don't want to waste the time thinking about.

I've also used it to generate Facebook posts, it's awesome at this however recently I've had to make a point to telling it not to include emojis or the posts get overloaded

[–] yumcake@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I tried it once or twice and it worked well. It's too stupid now to be worth the attempt. The amount of time spent fixing its mistakes has resulted in net zero time savings.

[–] Waldowal@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Definately. ChatGPT for coding help, and learning new coding topics. And Gamma for presentations - if only for the nice formatting of content and stock imagery.

[–] jhulten 3 points 2 years ago

I suffer from the curse of the blank page, so getting something on the page to edit and expand is a lifesaver for me. It is also useful to adjust tone, and do simple things like document functions. Easy to correct if wrong.

[–] FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use it as a software Developer but I’m not hiding it from my boss.

Mainly I use it generate me mock data, but also for helping me understand code blocks or if I want to sort some complex data and my head is baffled.

People seem to miss the point in that if I don’t understand software development then ChatGPT is of little help. With the sorting of data, it can give me 90% complete solutions but you have to know what you’re doing to debug it.

[–] gencha@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

As long as it passes tests and CI, people will commit and push almost any kind of garbage it produces. I do the code reviews, and it turned into a circus after LLMs. People are extremely reluctant to fix "their code", because they don't understand it, and they also don't want to go back to basics and learn the fundamentals they were trying to skip by using the LLM in the first place.

I can't see anything positive about this development.

[–] legion@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I don't have much use for confident-sounding nonsense.

[–] Kerred@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I run a board game store, so just for a chuckle I asked it about what's popular this year or what to order and kept getting the same answer about only having accurate data from 2021 and prior.

I've used it for writing job descriptions. The final output is different after I've tweaked it but it's much easier than starting with a blank page.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

I work in sales. Cat-I-Farted is about as smooth and persuasive as a middleschooler.

[–] moobythegoldensock@geddit.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I’m a family doctor, so I haven’t yet. It’s not a validated tool to source medical information, and I can’t paste any patient identifiers into it, so even if I wanted its input it’s way faster to just use my standard medical resources.

Our EMR plans to do some testing later this year for generative AI in areas that don’t have to be medically validated like notes to patients. I will likely sign up to pilot it if that option is offered.

I use it for D&D, though, along with a mixture of other tools, random generators, and my own homebrew. My players are aware of this.

[–] jcrabapple@dmv.pub 2 points 2 years ago

We use it liberally but we are encouraged to do so.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I use it and encourage my staff and other departments to use it.

I feel that we're at a horse vs tractor or human computer vs digital computer event. In the next 10+ years those who are AI ignorant will be under employed or unemployed. Get it now and learn to use it as a force multiplier just like tractors and digital computers were.

The arguments against AI eerily mirror the arguments against tractors and digital computers.

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I tell everyone! I suggest my coworkers and bosses to do the same.

Why I should keep it as secret?

[–] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

We openly use it to generate placeholder text. No hiding necessary.

[–] Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Won't do, too much vernacular in my line of work.

[–] kaput@jlai.lu 1 points 2 years ago

I've used it in a few occasions, mostly to find better terms and adjusting the tone for my emails. Also finding what acronym stands for and understanding technical issues. Asking to explain like I'm a 5 yo or beginner saved me some time from doing long researches on google.

[–] Jayb151@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I've used ai in general a few years ago as a companion till for writing seo optimized articles. It was ok at that time, and would do maybe 30% of the work I needed, but I would still have to go back in and make major edits or it would only pop out a sentence at a time so I would be contently prompting it.

My wife is a full time writer for a company and she uses it all the time to create emails and speeches. She says the leaks and bounds in actual usability is pretty insane. Like, one prompt can give her an entire speech.

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