15th October 2025, 2:39 PM
I treat ChatGPT like a search engine that I can ask more freeform and natural questions.
You can't ask questions like these on Google:
You could ask these kinds of questions on Reddit or some other mega-forum, but it's not a good use of anybody's time. And you'd have to go to specific forums, like the videogame forum, the movie forum, and the board game forum, to know the answer to. That's what I think ChatGPT is great at.
And of course you could ask these stupid kinds of questions for more academic domains. If you forget a chemical molecule you can ask open-ended questions to remember it. Or if you forgot a programming design pattern ChatGPT can guide you back to it. Yeah it's definitely flawed, but asking a human being would be equally as flawed, if not worse.
Also, it is particularly useful for fiction research, as in for writing fictional stories, since fiction doesn't have to be factual. Good fiction is about what "feels right" instead of what "is right" or "provably right". That's one of the points of fiction - To resolve things you will never be able to resolve in real life. In some cases, you will never be able to know if someone was a good person or a bad person, or if an organization did corrupt actions and covered it up, but fiction can give you a confident answer. Sometimes that's what ChatGPT is good at - Giving you confident BS that works well enough for a piece of fiction.
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For content generation I really hope AI content creation doesn't take over in my lifetime, but I have no idea how fast AI will progress. I personally do not think it will happen in the next few decades.
I've played with AI for content generation for fun, never posting any of it anywhere, and it is a bit alarming how good it can be if you know how to use it right and which ones are good. The good news, for people who hate AI, is that right now it is impossible to get exactly what you want from an AI, forcing a person to draw it themselves to get exactly what they want.
Like right now, the big problem is that many companies can't take art from good artists legally to train their datasets off. There are websites harvesting information legally yea, but they are probably over-harvesting and it's not specific/filtered enough yet to be relevant. So what ends up happening is instead hobbyist AI models have taken over. Individuals, instead of businesses, are taking art from Boorus or artist's portfolios directly and training the models on their own computers and uploading them to Civtai or other websites. That way it's much harder to sue anyone because there's thousands of individual people instead of a few big corporations. It's more decentralized, like how pirating works, so it will never disappear.
But the good news is that these datasets don't have enough keywords to make it worthwhile. Like if you go to Danbooru there aren't enough keywords per picture to be specific about things. It might have "Short Hair" or "Long Hair", but it doesn't have specific haircuts like "Mullet", "Bob Cut", "Bowl Cut", "Butch Cut", "Buzz Cut", etc. Since AIs are trained off of these boorus, the AI also will not know the terms: "Mullet", "Bob Cut", "Bowl Cut", "Butch Cut", "Buzz Cut", etc. So trying to get the AI will never draw EXACTLY what you want because it is impossible to specify with enough accuracy. It can only generalize and guess at what you want.
You can't ask questions like these on Google:
- "What was that videogame where it's like an RPG FPS where you're in space and there's aliens destroying the space station?
- "Hey what was that one movie where you had a girl fall in love with a schizophrenic man? It had a bad ending."
- "Uhh what's the one board game that's similar to Space Station 13 where you're on a station and everyone can influence any character on the board. I think there was like a monkey character and a rat character and then a bunch of boring characters like an engineer and stuff? It's like a mystery game where you guess who's who even though everyone can control everyone."
You could ask these kinds of questions on Reddit or some other mega-forum, but it's not a good use of anybody's time. And you'd have to go to specific forums, like the videogame forum, the movie forum, and the board game forum, to know the answer to. That's what I think ChatGPT is great at.
And of course you could ask these stupid kinds of questions for more academic domains. If you forget a chemical molecule you can ask open-ended questions to remember it. Or if you forgot a programming design pattern ChatGPT can guide you back to it. Yeah it's definitely flawed, but asking a human being would be equally as flawed, if not worse.
Also, it is particularly useful for fiction research, as in for writing fictional stories, since fiction doesn't have to be factual. Good fiction is about what "feels right" instead of what "is right" or "provably right". That's one of the points of fiction - To resolve things you will never be able to resolve in real life. In some cases, you will never be able to know if someone was a good person or a bad person, or if an organization did corrupt actions and covered it up, but fiction can give you a confident answer. Sometimes that's what ChatGPT is good at - Giving you confident BS that works well enough for a piece of fiction.
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For content generation I really hope AI content creation doesn't take over in my lifetime, but I have no idea how fast AI will progress. I personally do not think it will happen in the next few decades.
I've played with AI for content generation for fun, never posting any of it anywhere, and it is a bit alarming how good it can be if you know how to use it right and which ones are good. The good news, for people who hate AI, is that right now it is impossible to get exactly what you want from an AI, forcing a person to draw it themselves to get exactly what they want.
Like right now, the big problem is that many companies can't take art from good artists legally to train their datasets off. There are websites harvesting information legally yea, but they are probably over-harvesting and it's not specific/filtered enough yet to be relevant. So what ends up happening is instead hobbyist AI models have taken over. Individuals, instead of businesses, are taking art from Boorus or artist's portfolios directly and training the models on their own computers and uploading them to Civtai or other websites. That way it's much harder to sue anyone because there's thousands of individual people instead of a few big corporations. It's more decentralized, like how pirating works, so it will never disappear.
But the good news is that these datasets don't have enough keywords to make it worthwhile. Like if you go to Danbooru there aren't enough keywords per picture to be specific about things. It might have "Short Hair" or "Long Hair", but it doesn't have specific haircuts like "Mullet", "Bob Cut", "Bowl Cut", "Butch Cut", "Buzz Cut", etc. Since AIs are trained off of these boorus, the AI also will not know the terms: "Mullet", "Bob Cut", "Bowl Cut", "Butch Cut", "Buzz Cut", etc. So trying to get the AI will never draw EXACTLY what you want because it is impossible to specify with enough accuracy. It can only generalize and guess at what you want.
