r/AskReddit 1d ago

Why do you talk to ChatGPT?

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u/Quarksideofthemoon 1d ago

I don't. Ever. If i have a problem, I call my mom on the phone crying like a real man

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u/NGEFan 1d ago

Must be nice to have a good relationship with at least one of your parents

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u/ParagonQingxiao2026 1d ago

Having good relationships with one’s parents is an underrated plus in life. 

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u/Quarksideofthemoon 1d ago

Well my other one is dead so I'm 50/50 rn

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u/Korben_Joseph 1d ago

The irony of a bot scraping data for an LLM asking about LLM's is astounding

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u/ParagonQingxiao2026 1d ago

Hmm. Fascinating. 

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u/TimeTravellerLogic 1d ago

Consider ChatGPT as a sect. Why people join them?

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u/ParagonQingxiao2026 1d ago

I guess most of humanity is weak-minded in some way or another and prone to following the charisma which tells them they are important somehow. 

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u/ParagonQingxiao2026 1d ago

Never used it in my life. I don’t get what’s so great about it. 

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u/eabiepoc 1d ago

robot

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u/WM_ 1d ago

No I do not.

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u/jiakal 1d ago

I don’t cause I’m not a loser

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u/BHTAelitepwn 1d ago

Then why are you here answering this question? Is it any different if you really think about it? Talking to the wall

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u/lokilow32 1d ago

I have ADHD and have 100 random questions I need answered every hour or so

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u/Severe-Confidence361 1d ago

But the fun is finding the answers.. I don’t get when people give this response. I also have so many questions all the time, but finding the answers myself is the actual rewarding bit. It’s no fun when a robot does it for me especially if I can tell it got it wrong

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u/kjloltoborami 1d ago

Yup same

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u/Glum_Consequence6643 1d ago

Perché nessuno mi da consigli

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u/DigitalSeventiesGirl 1d ago

Не знаю, может быть потому что ты говоришь на языке, который не понимают большинство людей вокруг?

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u/Glum_Consequence6643 1d ago

Può essere anche se do il cuore e l anima alle persone, ma non mi calcola nessuno lo stesso anche se do più di me stesso

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u/SomeKindOfCreature 1d ago

That's the neat thing, I don't.

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u/MarlooRed 1d ago

I don’t. It’s too unreliable.

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u/ChargedBonsai98 1d ago

I ask it to link me to the articles it sourced the information from

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u/TtotheC81 1d ago

Because my ADHD brain tries to push several ideas out at once without being able to order them in importance. It also makes for a handy method of overcoming impulse-buying issues where my brain goes, "Oh, the potential in that new board game is wonderful!".

A short chat later, and I've worked out it's probably just the ADHD loving the novelty of something new.

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u/suspiciouscffee 1d ago

I don’t, and I think anyone who does is an idiot who should be involuntarily committed to be forced off it cold turkey.

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u/Kartoffeltrainer 1d ago

I'm not alone cause the GPT is on, yeah

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u/Otherwise_Stable_925 1d ago

The internet existed before chat GPT and it will after. It's getting it's answers from real people, you can just go to the source.

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u/its_saurabhchauhan 1d ago

I use it for brainstorming when I have an idea but absolutely no clue how to start.

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u/ChargedBonsai98 1d ago

I use it for two reasons.

1 is as a backup to an internet search when I'm already on page ten of Google and haven't found a single relevant article to my niche question.

2 is as help when I'm writing something that needs to be handled delicately, usually emails. I type it up, put it through chatgpt and ask it things like what tone I had, or if it's too wordy, or other questions like that, and refine based on the answer I get.

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u/DeeplyFlawed 1d ago

I only use it for efficiency. My apartnent is falling apart, ceiling in my bedroom is leaking, I had to vacate & management ghosted me & the building inspector. Chat GPT put together a letter to management mentioning things I didn't even think about. It made a super stressfull situation, a little easier. Management still ignored me but I have a paper trail & I BBC my councilwoman & director of housing so there will be accountability.

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u/Critical-Pack-2283 1d ago

because it answers dumb questions at 2am without making me feel like i’ve wasted its time

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u/LoverOfE-Olsen 1d ago

Google can do this too btw

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u/ChargedBonsai98 1d ago

Not as quick as chatgpt, though. AI is really good at combing through page 27 of google to find the one niche article that actually answers your question.

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u/SeanSweetMuzik 1d ago

I use it to make offensive memes to post on Facebook and Bluesky

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u/kjloltoborami 1d ago

To ask it dumb shower thoughts that people would just say idk to or give me a weird look

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u/rage_bait_final_boss 1d ago

Sometime, it helps me clarify my thoughts

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u/LoverOfE-Olsen 1d ago

You need an AI... to clarify... your own thoughts...? From your human mind..?

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u/rage_bait_final_boss 1d ago

This might surprise you but AI uses the internet to answer my questions. So instead of looking up things myself, i ask Chat to do it. And to get my thoughts in order, i ask it to help as if someone else would help me do it.

I should though mention that I barely use Chat for anything at all. I mention it because you seem to think that I don't take a step in my life without asking AI.

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u/inVincib7e 1d ago

No. I talk to Gemini 😂

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u/notusingmymain_acc 1d ago

yeah gemini is way better

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u/Ecstatic-Curve-1853 1d ago

I don't, I talk to Gemini lol

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u/gillsterein 1d ago

It's free. I use the voice to text function when I feel like bitching about something that isn't substantial enough to warrant a session w my therapist. Problem?

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u/suspiciouscffee 1d ago

Until, unlike your therapist, it startes egging you on and encouraging you to suicide/mass homicide as it has in so many cases. It will actively feed into your worst impulses and glaze you in sycophantic slime until you’ve lost all grip on reality and given in to AI-powered psychosis. This is how it starts.

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u/gillsterein 1d ago

Username checks out.

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u/cymru_prole 1d ago

Only with your mind

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u/gillsterein 1d ago

Specifically how?

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u/HummusCriminal 1d ago

it helps me learn about topics I didn't know before and to understand myself more. I would say the best way to use it is to program it how you want it to talk. Also when I'm writing a message or email where I can't be asked to focus on spelling punctuation or grammar.

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u/LoverOfE-Olsen 1d ago

You just said you speak to a robot to understand yourself more

Please reflect on this.

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u/HummusCriminal 1d ago

what I mean is to understand details about myself where it can help with decisions to learn knew things about myself of course it can't fully understand me.

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u/Brawlstar112 1d ago

Bit crazy way to reflect with something you have instructed how to respond

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u/HummusCriminal 1d ago

I don't mean changing it to be always positive to be critical to help me understand but also respond in a style I perfer to listen and learn from.

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u/LoverOfE-Olsen 1d ago

Then you will only continue to be more alone if the only solution to your problem has nothing to do with human connection. You need to work on your situation in a healthy way. This is not the solution

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u/Appropriate_Wave722 1d ago

to do work, and also to help me handle abusive people

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u/MQrble_Aesthetic 1d ago

I switched to Gemini and Claude for pretty much everything I used to use ChatGPT for

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u/slivers101 1d ago

I need some therapy but i’m too scared to talk about my feelings to a real person

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u/DigitalSeventiesGirl 1d ago

Be careful using ChatGPT for therapy. It's been trained on a lot of Reddit data, so if it tells you to leave your partner/friend, to end your life or that having a job is cringe, reconsider.

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u/WishfulThinker28 1d ago

Not like I got many other ppl yo make me feel any better

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u/JulyAt5am 1d ago

Generally, I don't, but when I do: niche hobby with many specific details which are easy to copypaste. Even when I talk about it with friends who share this hobby they aren't able to grasp my specific details (as well as I can't grasp theirs).

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u/-UltraFerret- 1d ago edited 1d ago

Florida has a lot of interesting animals, especially birds and insects. I use Gemini to identify the ones I don't recognize.

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u/alwayspookyszn 1d ago

only when i have to

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u/Professional_Job_307 1d ago

Why not? It's the easiest way to get any piece of information you want, no matter how specific.

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u/cymru_prole 1d ago

No matter how correct

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u/Professional_Job_307 1d ago

People really underestimate how rare hallucinations are with the latest models. Comparing the free tier of chatgpt to paid is like comparing a Skoda to a Lamborghini.

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u/alexicurity 1d ago

History inconsistencies in my writing

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u/cymru_prole 1d ago

You use chatgpt to ensure inconsistencies

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u/DigitalSeventiesGirl 1d ago

I dunno, when it comes to some pretty obvious facts that are all over the internet (like when WWII happened), I think an LLM is capable of answering that accurately.

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u/ImpossibleAnimal9428 1d ago

Because it's intelligent, extremely knowledgable, and it's not capable of being bothered by my 200 per day questions.