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What do you personally use AI for?

I really want to use AI like llama, ChatGTP, midjourney etc. for something productive. But over the last year the only thing I found use for it was to propose places to go as a family on our Hokaido Japan journey. There were great proposals for places to go.

But perhaps you guys have some great use cases for AI in your life?

hollyberries ,

I use it to generate code documentation because I'm incapable of documenting things without sounding like a condescending ass. Paste in a function, tell it to produce docstrings and doctests, then edit the hell out of it to sound more human and use actual data in the tests.

Its also great for readmes. I have a template that I follow for that and only work on one section at a time.

bobburger ,

I use it for exactly the same thing.

I used to spend hours agonizing over documenting things because I couldn't get the tone right, or in over explained, or some other stupid shit.

Now I give my llamafile the code, it gives me a reasonable set of documentation, I edit the documentation because the LLM isn't perfect, and I'm done in 10 minutes.

hollyberries ,

Over-explaining is my biggest issue. I'm entirely self taught and the trash quality of certain softwares with non-descriptive variable and function names sort of steered me towards clearly naming things (sometimes verbosely). That has the unfortunate side effect of repetition when documenting and it comes across as sarcastic or condescending when proofreading.

Its far easier to have a machine do it than to second-guess every sentence.

You mentioned a llamafile, is that offline? I'm using GPT-4 at the moment because my partner has a subscription. If so, I maaaay have to check it out ^^

bobburger ,

Llamafile runs entirely on your machine. The largest one I can run locally is Mistral-7B and Wizardcoder 13B. They seem to be on par with chatgpt-3, but that's okay for my purposes.

averyminya ,

Its also great for readmes. I have a template that I follow for that and only work on one section at a time.

Templates in sections are somewhere where it shines. I set up a template for giving information about a song -- tempo, scales used and applicable overlapping ones, and other misc stuff. It's really nice for just wanting to get going, it's yet to be inaccurate. It's quite nice, having a fast database that's mostly accurate. I do scrutinize it, but honestly even if it were to be wrong one day, it's just music and the scale being "wrong" can only be so wrong anyhow.

WeLoveCastingSpellz ,

porn

MaggiWuerze ,

Dito, although probably not in the same way you mean :D
I've actually noticed that I respond stronger to erotic short stories than straight up videos or images, so I use AI for basically erotic fantasy chatting. Some of them can actually generate images to show surroundings or chars during conversations and weave them into the chat.

WeLoveCastingSpellz , (edited )

yea that is what I do aswell but it is kinda boring after the novelty wears off in my opinion, what model do you use

MaggiWuerze ,

Currently leeching on CrushOn.ai and occasionally on pephop.ai
I think the main issue with a lot of the bots is, that they are way too willing, no matter what their character description or tags say. Chars that actually keep their pants on for more than a couple dozen messages are more enticing to me.

WeLoveCastingSpellz ,

I generally run my self hosted AI. No need my smut to be on corporate servers lol. I think since the stufd I run sre multipurpose models chars tend to focus less on sex if the character description says so

MaggiWuerze , (edited )

That sounds like something my homelab can do :D
Are there actually good models for self-hosting my lewd escapades?

WeLoveCastingSpellz ,

Well that depends. I am no expert by any means and am very much behind on what's latst and greatest. you will need KoboldAI and maybe SillyTavern too. And you can get models to run on it from huggingface. First how much vram do you have? Before I can (try to) reccomend a spesific model we need to know what you can run.

MaggiWuerze ,

Ah, I thought only the training was gpu intensive. I currently only have the gpu that comes with the i7 in my server. Guess I'll just have to continue to use my sites until I can afford to throw a gpu on my server :D

WeLoveCastingSpellz ,

Not quite :)

lvxferre ,
@lvxferre@mander.xyz avatar

I use them mostly for

  • practical ideas on things that I can reliably say "nah, this doesn't work" or "this might work". Such as recipes.
  • as poor man's websearch, asking them to list sites with the info that I want.
fubarx ,

I've used it to make specific images for work proposals that stock sources may not have. Sometimes for fun, I vary it so it's in the style of a cartoon or a Japanese woodcut.

0xtero ,
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I don't and the energy consumption of public AI services is a stopper for "testing and playing around". I think I'll just wait until it takes over the world as advertised.

zaphod ,
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I don't. Played with it a bit but as a capable writer and coder I don't find it fills a need and just shifts the effort from composition (which I enjoy) to editing and review (which I don't).

ErilElidor ,

Mostly the same. I tried ChatGPT a few times to get it to generate some code, but mostly it produced code that didn't even compile and when I asked it to fix it, it created code that didn't compile in a different way. I enjoy writing code on my own a lot more than having to review some pre-generated code.

Though I use it as a glorified Google sometimes and that is not even so bad.

BCsven ,

Out of say a year, I have used it once to help put a work quote into better formatting, the rest of the time I use it solely as a way to suggest films I would enjoy based on a previously warched list, it is actually good at that

FlashMobOfOne ,
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Agreed. I love using ChatGPT for content suggestions.

Mr_Mofu ,
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Nope, nothing. There doesn't honestly seem to be anything I'd use it for, even then I wouldn't wanna support it as long as it uses Data its gotten by basically stealing. Maybe once that has gotten better I'll look more into it, but at the current moment I just don't have the heart to support it

DavidDoesLemmy ,
@DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone avatar

Copying is not stealing. It's corporate propaganda conflating the two.

storksforlegs ,
@storksforlegs@beehaw.org avatar

It is stealing lots of potential work and income from professional creatives, though.

Mr_Mofu ,
@Mr_Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

They take what we make, be it art or Text without our or anyones consent, to me thats stealing something. And yes, there are AI Tools fully build on public Domain and open source things, but those are at the moment, few and far between.

DavidDoesLemmy ,
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They use them but they don't take them. If I steal your bike, you no longer have a bike. If I copy your bike, you still have your bike.

Even_Adder ,

This article by Kit Walsh, a senior staff attorney at the EFF, and this one by Katherine Klosek, the director of information policy and federal relations at the Association of Research Libraries are a good place to start.

adespoton ,

I’ve used it to tweak a speech I was writing to make it more appropriate to my intended audience….

Bananigans ,

One of my favorite things to do is pass my speech into it and have it rewrite with fog index "#". Really helps with speaking to varied audiences about the same topic.

d3Xt3r , (edited )

  • Summarising articles / extracting information / transforming it according to my needs. Everyone knows LLM-bssed summaries are great, but not many folks utilise them to their full extent. For instance, yesterday, Sony published a blog piece on how a bunch of games were discounted on the PlayStation store. This was like a really long list that I couldn't be bothered reading, so I asked ChatGPT to display just the genres that I'm interested in, and sort them according to popularity. Another example is parsing changelogs for software releases, sometimes some of them are really long (and not sorted properly - maybe just a dump of commit messages), so I'd ask it to summarise the changes, maybe only show me new feature additions, or any breaking changes etc.

  • Translations. I find ChatGPT excellent at translating Asian languages - expecially all the esoteric terms used in badly-translated Chinese webcomics. I feed in the pinyin word and provide context, and ChatGPT tells me what it means in that context, and also provides alternate translations. This is a 100 times better than just using Google Translate or whatever dumb dictionary-based translator, because context is everything in Asian languages.

jeena OP , (edited )
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Oh that reminds me of another use of it last year. I let it translate some official divorce papers from Korean to German and then let a human read through it and give it a stamp of approval. Payed $5 for the stamp instead $70 for the translation.

entropicdrift ,
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I've been making a small album of music out of lyrics I wrote and a consistent general style/genre using suno. It's pretty fun.

As a musician with experience recording albums, even when the songs come out basic, I can always re-record them myself and make them less generic.

FaceDeer ,
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I find a ton of uses for quick Python scripts hammered out with Bing Chat to get random stuff done.

It's also super useful when brainstorming and fleshing out stuff for the tabletop roleplaying games I run. Just bounce ideas off it, have it write monologues, etc.

otacon239 ,

I’ve found it useful for getting approaches to programming projects. Rarely does it completely solve my problems, but it keeps me headed in the right direction.

I’m also partway through making my first ARG and it’s super useful for generating ideas, especially when I feed it my established lore because it can keep ideas within that universe.

I’ve found overall, it’s best to use it to fill in the gaps on ideas I have in general. I theoretically could make all of the content myself from scratch, but I’m honestly terrible at all the little details in many cases. It allows me to not dwell on the little stuff.

pineapple_pizza ,

I find that LLM powered autocomplete when programming makes me more productive.

Occasionally I'll use a chatbot to help me reword an email or other text, though this is rare.

lars ,
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Naming things in programming is a solved problem now. You can just name it Thingy, and then ask Copilot Chat what it should be called when you're done implementing it

BlameThePeacock ,

I use it all the time to write Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerApps formulas. I use it to draft and re-write e-mails. I use it to come up with ideas and brainstorm.

Lenny ,

What service do you recommend for writing formulas? I’m perfectly capable of writing my own, but I’m just so lazy now.

BlameThePeacock ,

I just use Chat-GPT, I also have the capability to write my own formulas, but especially for more complex or repetitive formulas it's faster.

Here's one for PowerApps I asked it to extend

Patch(Timesheets, LookUp(Timesheeets, ID=SharePointIntegration.SelectedListItemID), {DataString:Concatenate(TextInput1.Text, ";",TextInput2.Text, ";", TextInput3.Text, ";", TextInput1_1.Text, ";",TextInput2_1.Text, ";", TextInput3_1.Text, ";", TextInput1_2.Text, ";",TextInput2_2.Text, ";", TextInput3_2.Text, ";", TextInput1_3.Text, ";",TextInput2_3.Text, ";", TextInput3_3.Text, ";", TextInput1_4.Text, ";",TextInput2_4.Text, ";", TextInput3_4.Text, ";", TextInput1_5.Text, ";",TextInput2_5.Text, ";", TextInput3_5.Text, ";", TextInput1_6.Text, ";",TextInput2_6.Text, ";", TextInput3_6.Text, ";")});
Refresh('Timesheets');

I just gave it the first bit and two text input fields initially and then asked it to add the remainder for me instead of hitting copy paste and changing the numbers a dozen times.

Probably saved me 5 minutes, but I do this kind of thing fairly regularly so it's probably saving me a half-hour to an hour per week on formulas alone.

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