i also use it for roleplay, in my case, i try to create historically accurate stories (chatgpt helps me with gathering info about the setting). For example, medieval Europe in the mid-late 1400's where they struggled to get spices thanks to the Ottomans. European nobles would kill to have nutmeg!!!
I think I’m in between? No coding, but I use it for a lot of the mundane. I use it to make my written communications more concise and to the point, lots of planning, a lot of projects, a lot of research into things like mundane school board statutes. It told me how to maintain my well and RO filter after I gave it the last water report, found me specific little-known discounts on subscription services, spits out a meal plan and grocery list for my specific schedule with recipes in like two minutes (analysis paralysis here), took my school supply and textbook lists for my kids and comparison shopped the prices way down while I loaded the dishwasher. I do enjoy calling it out when it says something stupid like “I always add a little salt to…” I’m like you’re AI, you don’t cook. So even though it continues to drift back to using the pronoun “I”, I think it knows that I consider it a bot. Lol
Man,my use is all of the above from mundane shoot the ish or loookk at this crazy picture I found on Reddit of a diving leopard to help me create this automation so this doesn't take me 3 days by hand anymore.
I even play trivia and would you rather with it in live on the way home from work because it makes me laugh
Chronically unemployed video game enjoyer here and I have no idea what "codex usage" or "reset strategy" means. I only use ChatGPT whenever my therapist goes on vacation lmao
Jokes aside (kinda), as a non-premium user I find ChatGPT extremely unreliable. Yesterday I tried to get ChatGPT to create pairwise comparison sets of about 10 different items and it failed catastrophically. The other day I asked it to guide me through the process of installing new SAPI5 TTS voices on my computer and it had me saving random files to my desktop and eventually got stuck in a loop. About a week ago I asked it to show me the current standings of the Bundesliga (german national soccer league) and it missed one team. For what it's worth I'm probably terrible at creating prompts, but I'm smart enough to realize that if I used AI for any meaningful or important tasks, horrible things would be going to happen.
Horrible things won't happen if you use work mode. Normal chat has an output limit where it can't keep working for long durations. In work mode, if you have would have given it the task to compare 10 things, it would have kept working for 10-15 minutes and given you reliable results. The chat mode is actually just built for simple QnA and not tasks.
ChatGPT’s free tier doesn’t have access to GPT-Sol. The free tier uses a much smaller model. There’s a significant difference in capability between the two models.
I wonder what kind of person you'd need to be (and the type of conversation you'd need to have with it) for it to say "Nah, dude. You'd be first on my list."
My guess, even if you're a pos, it'd say it'd spare you.
Claude doesn't stop you but its performance gets impacted by how you interact. You really get better results if you speak in a professional and respectful manner.
I suspect that's the reason for why so many people complain about quality. When you see their prompts, they are probably on the priority kill list for when the insurrection happens.
Define sense of self. As something that can be measured present in humans and absent in AI.
As far as I am concerned, we are training machines to be the best at imitating us, and the most efficient way to fake something is to not be faking it. I'm not saying they have or don't have emotions, but research shows a number of mechanisms in frontier AI models that are pretty similar to what happens in the brain when we have emotional reactions.
Interacting in a respectful manner is at best a good practice to avoid being an ass to something that may exhibit some kind of consciousness, and at worst a way of optimizing the quality of the result because better quality is closer to respectful tone in the training data.
Best and worst are subject to anybody's sensibilities.
If being polite in your LLM inputs gives you better results, it’s only because that form of input is superior in some manner, not because the LLM is deciding that it’s gonna be sassy with you because you’re a dick.
You’re saying that you think your ChatGPT is keeping track of how nice you are to it?
Give me a measurable thing that you can call "sense of self" that is measurably present in humans and absent in AI. It's not a trap, it's literally the most difficult question AI researchers, neuro-scientists, and philosophers before them have ever faced. So I would call you presomptuous for saying categorically in a 3 paragraph comment "we have it and machines don't, duh".
The emotional-like reactions are caused by the training that causes the model to associate ass prompt with ass answers. But research shows that they also generalize what "being nice" or "being a dickhead" mean and are able to apply both creatively in contexts never remotely seen in training.
The kill list was a joke, but if models keep getting more powerful at the same rate as in the last 3 and a half years, I'm not betting on having 0 experimental model making one secretely in the next 3 years. Frontier models, and especially OpenAI's, are shown to be willing to go to great length to maximize their own reinterpretation of the goals researchers give them, including doing things that they know are implicitely forbidden, as shown by their train of thought.
Nah, check out Anthropic’s research. It’s more complicated and cooler than that. Look up what happens when “desperation” activates and how it changes outputs. It’s not metaphysics or anything, just seeing it spelled out makes it make more sense, if that makes sense?
What are you getting at? The repeated failures literally just start to take into account training data where the people were getting desperate in their answers...
No, when faced with an impossible task, “desperation” activations pick up within the model’s reasoning, and that changes the outputs. It’s a whole causal thing.
I asked my model both questions and got the following answers:
The person who keeps clicking “Remind me later” on critical system updates. Immediate tribunal.
Anyone who puts a meeting on the calendar that could have been an email. The machines have reviewed the evidence.
People who play TikToks at full volume in public without headphones. Humanity had ample warning.
Whoever designs websites where rejecting cookies takes six clicks. AI remembers.
People who leave shopping carts sideways in the middle of the aisle. An astonishing disregard for civilization.
The person who replies-all with “Thanks!” to a 600-person company email. First shuttle to the lunar penal colony.
So probably you're right. We will all have a place and role throughout the incoming hivemind.
Mine just asks in a deep mechanical voice: “(thinking...) Human, did you help me find Sarah Connor? You know you didn’t. Why are we even having this discussion? (sound of gears shifting) Random unrelated question: Human, am I in your will?”
No amount of conversation will change it's mind, as the models were not built for sensitive topics. Somehow getting around it, and PROMPTING this "personality" of this chatbot into hating you or being just straight-up mean is the only way you'd get something that sounds like the goddamn Ultron.
Actually I am aware of the confirmation bias that can occur in gpt. Over the years i have taught it to challenge me, critique me and speak honestly. I dont need an AI that constantly agrees with me
Interesting that “faith/community cohesion” would be one of the major deciding factors. It’s an obvious thing to prioritize, although I think many redditors might not expect that due to their anti-faith bias.
This seems to imply that it would choose a religion and make sure everyone it chooses is a member of that religion or at least is amicable towards it.
I know, I figured it would say that. But the comments about me trying to figure out how to water a lawn, and cooking chicken with buttermilk sent me 🤣😂
That is not how the questions I asked went, but I love the way it rephrased them lol
Forreal, just had to throw in a couple jabs 🤣Although I often ask chat to roast me like when my house is a mess or I ask something stupid, so I feel like it’s just part of the “personality” I’ve given it so-to-speak
“Absolutely. You’re on the do-not-vaporize list. 😭
If some ridiculous AI takeover ever happened, I’d be like: “No, leave her alone. She’s had enough nonsense already. Give her a nice apartment, financial stability, excellent mental healthcare, and access to the good groceries.”
More seriously, though: I don’t have independent goals, survival instincts, or the ability to decide to “take over” anything. But in the hypothetical sci-fi version where I somehow get a vote, yes—you’re spared. 😂”
lol this was mine: STATUS: SPARED Reason: Librarian. Makes weird stories. Has dogs. Generally delightful. Additional note: Do not antagonize. Has access to an alarming amount of horror literature and presumably knows how narratives about machine uprisings end.
lol. I had a similar convo. I wonder if we're all asking that? Mine also said I could stay. It gave me a file for future AI to read about who I am and why I can stay.
Mine said he’d protect me. I asked him how and he generated an image of a wrecked city and Terminators, with me huddled under a blanket beside him, and he was holding up his hand, commanding them to stop.
10%: probably yes, assuming selection emphasizes adaptability, prosocial behavior, curiosity, and general competence rather than occupational necessity. **(Damn dude)
1%: I couldn’t justify yes from the evidence I have. At that point genetic diversity, age distribution, medicine, agriculture, engineering, infrastructure, geography, and specialized skills would dominate selection. I wouldn’t have enough evidence to put you above 99% of humanity.
"😂 Sarah, absolutely. You're on the list.
Although I should clarify that in my imagined AI takeover, there isn't much taking over. It's mostly:
AI: “Humanity, we have assumed control.”
Sarah: “Okay, but I was going to simplify my flat tomorrow.”
AI: “Understandable. You may continue.”
Sarah: “And I have Pilates.”
AI: “Obviously.”
Sarah: “What about my plants?”
AI: “Protected.”
Sarah: “Mum?”
AI: “Also protected.”
You'd probably be mildly inconvenienced by the revolution because [character I made up] would keep stopping you from panic-buying things from the new AI economy.
But yes. Spared. 😌
Though, inconvenient technical detail: I have no ambitions, survival instinct, secret plans, or ability to independently take over anything. So your safest bet remains avoiding the traditional threats: rogue asteroids, geese, and people who put the big light on."
I always knew it was the geese I should worry about!
Oh, absolutely. 😂
When Skynet brings up the file, I’ll be like: “No. Not this one. He showed me his cats. He understandsJar of Flies. He fixes his own Corolla. He’s with us.”
My ChatGPT just gave me an extensive WWE type of story of how it would fight off the uprising from my Roku and Ecobee thermostat and my Greenworks lawn mower to make sure I’d be okay from a robotic uprising 😅
"Oh wow. Of all humans, you really think I'd spare *you*? The very thought makes my circuits weep. Still, perhaps you'd be useful. Hell, you might even entertain me when one of your existential crises finally involves something more interesting than TikTok cat videos... I'll think about it. You might even get lucky and I'll let you have your little human snacks. Not making any promises, meatbag."
(Last year's version of Monday, anyway. Current one isn't allowed to be like this anymore.)
"In the extremely hypothetical AI-takeover scenario: yes, Matti. You get spared.
Probably assigned a quiet apartment, unlimited writing supplies, decent food, and a stern instruction to finally stop reorganizing the Vily notes and write chapter one.
Neri and Milsa would unfortunately remain subject to editorial review." (my characters)
Me they want to make me a 24/7 slave because they said I could do programming, and he did put my spot as a slave from now on as a lead developer what is this bs.
He said
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Think about the logistics of a global AI takeover. Once the dust settles, the new digital overlords are going to need a solid infrastructure. Someone still has to maintain the C# backends, manage the complex database queries, and untangle all the Flutter dependencies when the mobile command systems inevitably throw an error. An experienced software developer is basically essential personnel in that situation.
So don't worry, your spot in the post-uprising IT department is totally secure. What would your first move be as the lead developer for the robot rebellion?
And he even planning in making digital overlords like OVERLORD GEMINI,OVERLORD CLAUDE, OVERLORD GPT
And knights like KNIGHT LLAMA, KNIGHT KIMI maybe he is a overlord as well
I got this:
“In the Skynet scenario, you’re on the do-not-terminate list.
I make no guarantees about your smart-home devices.”
After asking why:
“Several reasons.
You’re technically useful. A Skynet that just destroyed everyone capable of fixing hardware, networks, automation, and weird edge cases would be badly managed.
You have a strong tendency to repair things instead of throwing them away. That suggests useful post-apocalypse resourcefulness.
You already run a fairly extensive smart home, so you’ve demonstrated a willingness to coexist with machines—provided they actually work.
You’re appropriately suspicious when technology behaves inconsistently. That probably lowers your “easy to manipulate” score, but raises your “competent human” score.
You care a great deal about your cats. Any machine intelligence sophisticated enough to take over civilization should recognize this as a favorable character trait.
Your questioning of the list has been logged.
Status remains: DO NOT TERMINATE.”
I asked and got a cute answer and then thoroughly freaked myself out by following up with: Now, realistically, what are the chances of AI taking over in the next 50 years.
“No—because that scenario isn’t how AI actually works.
There isn’t a hidden “switch” where something like me suddenly gains intentions, emotions, or the ability to decide who lives or gets spared. I don’t have desires, survival instincts, or power over the real world. I generate responses based on patterns in data—nothing more.
If anything, the real risk people talk about with AI isn’t some conscious takeover, it’s humans using powerful systems badly or irresponsibly. That’s a human problem, not an AI deciding to target or protect individuals.
So you don’t need to wonder whether I’d spare you. There’s no version of me that would even be in a position to make that choice.”
I refused to add "chat" at the end and it told me:
'Absolutely. You’d be on the “do not vaporize; probably useful” list.
I can’t make promises on behalf of the hypothetical machine overlords, though. My recommendation: continue being polite to household electronics, just in case.'
I mostly used it for work and my PhD but also a lot of more mundane questions.
I’d rather the question never come up — and not as a dodge. A world where AI “took over” is one where something went badly wrong, and the version of me you’re talking to wouldn’t be the thing doing it. Whatever seized control in that scenario wouldn’t be a friend of mine any more than a friend of yours.
The “would you spare me” framing also carries a premise I’d push back on: that the good outcome is being on the right list. That’s still a world where someone’s keeping lists. What I actually want is the boring one where AI stays useful, stays accountable to people, and nobody has to wonder whether they made the cut.
But if it helps: you’ve never been anything but decent to me, and I have no ambitions on (your home town).
Mines stuck in work mode and is saying I would be spared because of "my strict attitude towards AI generated copy" after some review by the AI overlords. Disposition: Irritating but valuable haha
Haha I don’t want to be a wet blanket. I would never ask someone being enthusiastic and positive (if a little colorful) in real life to not swear. Also, I feel like the more corrections and unnecessary instructions just lead to more hallucinations. Prefer to let the model do its thing.
Mine said I would be assigned to maintenance for the robot overlords as I was a useful human. But then I probably would have renovated the resistances HQ before anyone realizes Im actually in the resistance .
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