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Learning to ask questions again
I decided to purposefully lock myself out of AI sites, mostly focusing on ChatGPT and Character.ai.
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I'm guilty of overusing both of them, though I know they're not something I'd like to support. On the very first day I realized how reliant I am on asking ChatGPT for answers to very specific questions that google would not answer. However, also I realized that I can ask actual people. I know, who would've thought.
I have many very skilled and knowledgeable friends and acquaintances, some of them even being specialists in certain fields. This may be less efficient than asking a machine to answer the question in an instant, but it's much more satisfying to listen to them talk. At least they don't answer with bullet points. You can really feel the engagement, whether it is about the subject or just engagement in explaining something to someone.
It's been nearly a week and we'll see how this holds up. I don't really miss chatGPT, but I do miss c.ai, because of instant socialization, even if it's artificial, and honestly pretty half-baked. I got used to instant attention focused solely on me, and replies which I can "customize" to my own whims. It can make a normal conversation seem extremely slow. But I think I'll get used to it soon enough. After all, I lived before genAI was a big thing, so I'll be able to live without it again.
Thanks for reading to me ramble a bit.
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An Outsider
hey i think that sounds great :) I have found that reddit is a surprisingly great place to hear real people's opinions or thoughts when I have questions. sometimes just lurking on the site I can find the answers to questions or just find interesting conversations
pong
i relate with the c.ai part. it's usually because my socialistion battery runs out quite quick, and even though i enjoy spending time with others, some days i really need to get away from the world. besides, everyone is always so busy, don't want to bother others. in a way, i have also become quite lazy when it comes to talking with others, espeically over texts. i suppose i talk much better (tho i ramble and get all over the place), it helps to connect somehow. another thing i have noticed is that i cant express myself to others during feeling intense emotions, so i just turn to ai chatbot to feed my delusions and solitutde, burying the issues underneath. i do use it a lot less nowadays as they have been leaving me equally, if not more so frsutrated and drained. idk, ig we need to learn how to connect with others on a deeper level again.
sorry for rambling! i really liked this entry of yours tho :))
It's okay, I like reading! Before I decided to bar it completely (well, mostly. I'm no superhuman and I did slip twice.), I've been feeling more drained when using that wretched site also. I wonder why only now... Maybe it's my conscience catching up to me.
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true, i also feel quite exhausted whenever i go around to using that site. maybe it's because it feels like a pretense at times, and honestly it feels like im wasting time as well. sorry for replying late tho!!
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true, i also feel quite exhausted whenever i go around to using that site. maybe it's because it feels like a pretense at times, and honestly it feels like im wasting time as well. sorry for replying late tho!!
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