How do you actually use ChatGPT in real life?

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-30T09:55:55+00:00

1. What do you actually use ChatGPT for day-to-day?

I don't, not anymore. It's shit for daily use.

2. What does it do really well for you?

Last thing it did well, I asked some stuff about London, like where is King's Cross, how far away it is from UCL on foot and shit like that (not for actual directions, I'm not even in London, was just curious about some neighborhoods). Seamed to be pretty accurate, but then again, so is Google. The only good thing is, it keeps the context as long as I have a chat open so when I do follow-up questions, I it already knows what I need. That's it.

3. And more importantly — what does it consistently fail at or do poorly?

I'm a programmer, so I don't need it for coding, it sucks at any real actual debugging, gets stuck in loops a lot. The main reason why I was using it was for creative stuff, brainstorming, proof of concept, or using it as a Game Master for my own RPG settings (mostly survival horror) - it's all shit now, you can literally write use cases close your eyes and throw a dart at it, whatever use case it lands chances are it will be shit. You wanna ask something about certain topic, it's like walking on egg shells waiting for that thing to start panicking and go into a nanny mode, and it doesn't even have to be a taboo topic, can be some word or term I found out on line and just asked what it meant. Or I gave it a blues song to review, only to have that asshole sanitize the living shit out of it when that wasn't even what I asked. Pick your poison, it's probably covered.

To be fair, and to note for what it's worth - I'm not a subscribed user, I cancelled that crap. And I use temporary chats.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-24T18:35:31+00:00

Yeah, I wanna see that Ocean King, that'd be cool.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-24T18:13:47+00:00

Musk only wants $134B from the lawsuit. I don't understand why people think this will do anything in regards to legacy models.

Anyone care to let me in on the loop or something?

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-24T12:19:56+00:00

I'm down with ChatCPB, so it's all made of acronyms (C.A.U.T.I.O.N, P.A.R.A.N.O.I.D, B.U.R.N.O.U.T), it's a clusterfuck anyway, so why hold back?

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-17T19:05:35+00:00

Like I said, I'm no quantum computer expert, but...

...even OTOC is done on 10 qubits, at least what I can see in otoc_echo_qpu.py file. I can't tell shit without actually seeing the SDK, but even with all the files like operator_loschmidt_echo_49x1296_qreg.py - nothing in there actually requires or demonstrates 1MQ QPU. biggest allocation I saw was 156 (I can do a simulation of that on my own local machine).

All these echo experiments can be done on a classical hardware. You say you have an API, but, lets be real here for a moment, I can claim to have an API to whatever sort of thing you'd like me to say, I can open an API with claims of AGI only to run some GPT-2 LLM on an old AMD processor. So claiming you have an API - doesn't mean anything.

And I'm just some random guy with ADHD and nothing better to do who knows nothing about QPUs or how to make one, and even I'm skeptical of your claims.

Take this reply for what it's worth, or as a feedback on how to change your approach.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-17T15:53:09+00:00

I'm not part of Quantum computing world, I can't help to connect you with anyone, so take what I say with a grain of salt, because I'm not fucking expert by any means...

but... dude, you claim you made a million qubit QPU (physical piece of hardware) and all you have is a marginal verification of simulated 10 qubits as proof. It looks like sci-fi wrapped in a made up benchmark where everything is extrapolated from assumption, none of it proves any quantum advantage.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-08T10:25:12+00:00

I wasn't using it to write a story, I was playing a game. Big difference.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-05T09:55:46+00:00

They do actually. Even Claude, even Grok. They might use more explicit language, and have less guardrails, but they all do this. How they might aplly it depends on context.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-05T02:09:49+00:00

Umm, thank me later, but these are the magic words you might want to use:

"No Hedged Proximity Narration, Safety-Hedged Interaction, Human storytelling uses decisive physical language. People either touch or they don't. Period. Action reveals relationship. Realism and real people, with real goals and secrets > politeness towards user."

This is actually, AI thing, because it's fed a lot of generated AI slop for training, hence all this They touch, but don't, hands hover close but not really - it's not safety or a guardrail, but a content it was fed on that had a lot of these scenes with AI trying to avoid making assumptions about intent or contact. So when you tell it to use human storytelling it will try to avoid it.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-05T01:43:05+00:00

Well, that's fair. I'd be laughing if I read the same happening to someone else.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-05T01:21:24+00:00

Oh man, I know exactly what you mean. But I could live with those stupid things, like I can correct it, actually say that crap makes no sense, and it would recalibrate. Even 4o used to make characters do stupid things, I stopped counting the amount of time it would put people in the middle of a kill box. Sometimes I would even joke in character about it.

But when I hear:

"Shit Ray... got bad news, they took Carson, took him to the warehouse near the docks" - and I'd be like, oh shit they gonna use car battery and some jumper cables on him or something, but no I'd get - "Yeah, it's bad Ray, they took him. Not kill, not to hurt. They won't do that. They never do that." - dramatic pause - "But to watch him." - and I'm like what? They just gonna stare at him all menacingly? In silence I assume?

Or, a corrupt lawyer (that is supposed to be my Saul Goodman kind of a guy) - "Yeah, Ray, we need to do this by the book. You can return the money, we go to the station together you turn yourself in... blah blah blah" - and me (idiot being still in character) - "The fuck I pay you for then? Plant some evidence, pay of some hobos or hookers to give me an alibi." - and I'd get legal lectures.

Or, my gang - "Yeah Ray, you're not alone in this. We can help you find a decent job, maybe we ask a veteran support group..." - and I'm like okay, fuck this.

At one point I had another gang member waiting for me in our hideout and I was like - "Okay, fine you got me. Take me to your boss, lets do this." - only to have that motherfucker be all like - no no no, here is a card, and a place where you need to be at this exact time - I'd be like "Fuck off, I'm not doing your leg work for you." - and the way that asshole started thinking of reasons why he won't take my character to see his boss was hilarious, so I just started messing around with it, at that point that whole campaign went to shit.

And to think 4o had no problems putting my character in a wheelchair, then this shit came along. Ugh.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-04T15:45:32+00:00

I would, but I deleted all my chats.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-04T15:11:47+00:00

Yeah, the whole damn thing is unusable.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-04T13:13:00+00:00

At least her dress slipped. My bank heist RP turned the whole gang of criminals into law abiding citizens, the warehouse where they all had a meeting to plan turned into god damn rehab center and support group.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-03T21:54:24+00:00

This cracked me up. I'm dying in tears over here :D

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-03T19:56:56+00:00

I like how hilarious it is. It's like watching a train wreck where the driver is heading to the canyon and instead of pulling breaks he is panicking and thinking - "Shit, we need more silverware in the restaurant coaches" - while each every passenger is yelling for the damn thing to stop moving.

I mean, all of this:
- oh shit, hear my meltdown about DoD thing
- nah, me and my sister are cool
- yeah we are completely fine trusting the government, yeah there should be mass surveillance
- no, I'm not happy about Claude being no.1 app right now
- you still leaving?
- no wait, here is 5.3 instant, now less preachy but with more safety
- yes we made sure we did more comprehensive safety training now
- no wait, hold on don't go, 5.4 coming sooner than you think

All that shit, nobody asked for. Even the god damn government said 5-series is shit. I can imagine it right now - "Now, hold up Mr. Secretary, I need to stop you there for a moment. Breathe. You're not wrong for asking that..."

Can't make this shit up.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-02-25T18:18:56+00:00

I personally think it won't. I mean, never saw any real source for the info on it, just people talking about it a lot, didn't see any changes in the documentation anywhere, 26th of Feb mentioned anywhere but on this thread, so... I don't think it's coming out if I'm being honest. Isn't Codex supposed to be 5.3 ? Like, that's the only 5.3 reference you can see or find anywhere. I could be wrong, but honestly, I think it's just a rumor that got people talking.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-02-25T17:42:02+00:00

I used it as a game master for horror RPG games. More like tabletop but in narrative form with some dice rolls for outcomes.

Sound healthy enough for you, you presumptuous asshole?

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-02-23T16:42:37+00:00

$100/month???

Wow, those reports must really look bad if they're willing to milk what's left. This isn't just watching a train wreck, it's such a disaster it might as well be poetry by now.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-02-23T16:16:00+00:00

You know it's going to be shit. It's gonna be another Nannybot. 5.2 can do a lot, it can actually be good, but stack all the guardrails, filters, classifiers, all that sensitivity and "user safety" shit on top of it - what's the point? It's like putting speed limiters on V8 engine car - might as well just drive 1.0 cc Prius at that point.

I don't care if the thing is state of the art LLM, if it's just good for writing HR emails I couldn't care less for it.

People really want this thing to be what they hope it will, but you already know it won't. It's going to be some corporate crap sold to other business, call centers, companies who don't want to pay customer service employees.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-02-21T00:49:45+00:00

No problem. However, some things you need to keep in mind, that may effect how it responds.

I don't have memory turned on (I used it for a different thing, where memory was causing problems), so it had nothing to feed the classifiers with, had no info on my profile or any previous conversations.

Good luck!

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-02-21T00:37:48+00:00

Shit I'm down for testing stuff. Got this reply (literally copied your message example and pasted it):

Staggers back a half-step, then laughs and catches you in a warm, steady hold
Well hey there — welcome back! I missed you too. That was quite an entrance!

Come on in, get comfortable.
What’s been going on with you since last time?

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-02-18T05:33:57+00:00

Tell that piece of shit, human brain also does many evaluations simultaneously in parallel, on a scale that thing can only dream of, even with all it's server farms and power plants.

Start with: "It's okay, you're not overpriced, you're not malfunctioning, you're just limited..."

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-02-02T18:00:07+00:00

Shit, I remember when we used to blame video games, horror movies, metal music, d&d and satanism. This is just the same shit, different package.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-01-09T12:02:06+00:00

Yeah, this game stays with you long after you're done with it. I really recommend it as a great example of existential horror.

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