The recent chat bot advances have pretty much changed my life. I used to get anxiety by receiving mails and IMs, sometimes even from friends. I lost friendships over not replying. My main issue being that I am sometimes get completely stuck in a loop of how to formulate things in the best way to the point of just abandoning the contact. I went to therapy for that and it helped. But the LLM advancements of the recent years have been a game changer.
Now I plop everything into ChatGPT, cleaning out personal information as much as possible, and let the machine write. Often I’ll make some adjustments but just having a starting point has changed my life.
So, my answer, I use it all the fucking time.
Me? When I use text communication? Never. Closest I get to using AI is letting a trusted acquaintance look over the message if I’m communicating with organisations. But beyond that? Nope.
I’m with the guy who’s at the op of the thread as of me typing. “If you can’t genuinely talk with me without the need for an LLM then I’d say we weren’t really friends to begin with.” ~@mriormro