Huh. ChatGPT does nothing for me on a social/emotional level, and I love a good conversation. I just can’t escape the sense that I’m fundamentally controlling both sides of the interaction. It’s just pixels on a screen to me. I don’t feel that way about chatting on forums like this one—just specifically about using chat bots like ChatGPT.
I have found it useful for creative science writing—getting it to describe the process of DNA replication in a vivid yet mechanistically accurate way, for example. But again, it feels like a machine that I am using than a person I am relating to.
The way I interpret your post is that chatbots, like many things, can become an addiction/obsession/consuming hobby once you get into it. And you seem to think it is an unhealthy one, at least for you. That seems reasonable to me. That’s how I feel about certain video games, and it’s why I just simply cannot play them.
Huh. ChatGPT does nothing for me on a social/emotional level, and I love a good conversation. I just can’t escape the sense that I’m fundamentally controlling both sides of the interaction. It’s just pixels on a screen to me. I don’t feel that way about chatting on forums like this one—just specifically about using chat bots like ChatGPT.
I have found it useful for creative science writing—getting it to describe the process of DNA replication in a vivid yet mechanistically accurate way, for example. But again, it feels like a machine that I am using than a person I am relating to.
Exactly where I was at Stage 1 (might never progress further than that for you, and I hope it doesn’t)
ChatGPT’s default personality is really terrible and annoying, not someone I would want to casually talk to
The way I interpret your post is that chatbots, like many things, can become an addiction/obsession/consuming hobby once you get into it. And you seem to think it is an unhealthy one, at least for you. That seems reasonable to me. That’s how I feel about certain video games, and it’s why I just simply cannot play them.