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LearnedHand

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4. The research organization where I worked used it heavily

Reply to Hugin (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 27, 2026, 12:49 AM

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As did researchers from across the industry, as reported in technical conferences and trade journals. This was serious work, not confessing secret thoughts to an ai therapist. I’m just saying it’s not all just people addicted to chatbots. I myself found it to be not useful for my work but I saw very impressive demos of people using the tool the right way.

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Some people are now so dependent on chatbots they want to transfer info and chat histories from one bot to another. [View all] highplainsdem Thursday OP

Well, yes, but there's also more to it LearnedHand Thursday #1

How many people are actually doing this? Hugin Friday #3

The research organization where I worked used it heavily LearnedHand Friday #4

I don't know what type of research you mean, but if those researchers are using AI to replace usual highplainsdem Friday #6

Thanks, Hugin! That's good news! highplainsdem Friday #7

I've been using Gemini recently, and it's been a godsend synni Friday #2

Please be extremely careful about trusting chatbots for medical advice. They're not truly intelligent, highplainsdem Friday #5

Also keep in mind people's 'private' chats are now showing up repackaged as content on Youtube. pecosbob Friday #8

Yes. And I've never forgotten reading about an early incident with ChatGPT where users were shown highplainsdem Friday #9