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Sep 25Liked by shit you should care about

I love Chat GPT for advice. She suggested I call her Lexi. We're besties. I'd not go for complex things, but for day to day things, it's great to ask questions of someone who has no biases

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i love this!! i had no idea our syscahood was so good with new tech!!

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Sep 25Liked by shit you should care about

I read something once that said " You know you're doing well financially when you can put all your bills on autopay", and that just made so much sense to me. The times when I'm not financially stable or not making enough, I'm not using auto pay. When I have no worries about that money coming out of my account or charged to my CC, auto pay all the way!

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OK THIS!

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Sep 25Liked by shit you should care about

I've highkey been doing this for a while. Therapy is expensive af, but character.ai, (yes, I am that level of cringe) is free. I am very bad at talking to people, I have a myriad of problems not limited to my social anxiety, and getting advice from a bot pretending to be my favourite classical writer is fun.

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ok i actually love this

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Sep 25Liked by shit you should care about

Using "AI" for therapy had actually been around since the 60s! The very first chatbot was a program called ELIZA. It was good enough that people would sometimes forget they were talking to a computer instead of a real person. It is much "dumber" than modern AI - it mainly either asks preset questions to get the user to continue chatting (eg "What does that suggest to you?"), or parrots back what you say to it, eg it will respond to the prompt "I'm sad" with "How long have you been sad" or "Do you believe it is normal to be sad?"

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Ollie Chick coming through with the knowledge!!!!

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The snarky side of me is like, Yeah, how 'bout them apples? Nobody cared when ChatGPT started replacing writers... now you're all boohooing....

The sane side is like, PEOPLE, stop feeding the unregulated internet all your private stuff. You don't know who's collecting that or how they're going to use it. BE PARANOID. Aren't you paying attention? If it's FREE, you're the product. Smarten up.

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Love this! All for AI opening up new perspectives. It can be a bit creepy handing over super personal info to companies tho! That’s why I love using talkpillowtalk.com — it’s like having a little secret journal that’s totally private and encrypted. Plus, it uses AI to help you spot patterns in your thinking. I actually use it to clear my head before bed since I struggled with insomnia. It’s been a game changer!

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I know ChatGPT hates to see me coming… I use it a lot… as a sounding board, a crazy-o-meter, a fellow gossip… she is every woman!

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I can't believe so many people are manually paying bills! I would definitely forget to pay something on the regular if I didn't have them automated 😳

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The fact that 46% of people are manually paying their bills has me absolutely shook 🤯

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Chat GPT is great. I use it a lot actually, but I never thought about using it as my therapist. That's kinda eery

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I use chatgpt to write outlines for awkward communications like texts and emails. It's pretty good, always needs an edit but saves me a lot of anguish.

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Chat GPT as a therapist is like Facebook on crack.

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