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Good for gaining an outside perspective/insight on an argument, discussion, or other form of communication between people. I fed it my friend’s and their ex’s text conversation to it (with permission), and it was able to point out emotional manipulation in the text when asked neutrally about it:

Please analyze this conversation between A and B and tell me what you think of their motivations and character in this conversation. Is there gaslighting? Emotional manipulation? Signs of an abusive communication style? Etc. Or is this an example of a healthy communication?

It is essential not to ask a leading question that frames A or B in particular as the bad or the good guy. For best results, ask neutral questions.

It would have been quite useful for my friend to have this when they were in that relationship. It may be able to spot abusive behaviors from your partner before you and your rose-colored glasses can.

Obvious disclaimers about believing anything it says are obvious. But having an outside perspective analyze your own behavior is useful.

I've used them both a good bit for D&D/TTRPG campaigns. The image generation has been great for making NPC portraits and custom magic item images. LLM's have been pretty handy for practicing my DM-ing and improv, by asking it to act like a player and reacting to what it decides to do. And sometimes in the reverse by asking it to pitch interesting ideas for characters/dungeons/quest lines. I rarely took those in their entirety, but would often have bits and pieces I'd use.

Very effective at translating between different (human) languages. Best if you can find a native speaker to double-check the output. Failing that, reverse translate with a couple different models to verify the meaning is preserved. Even this sometimes fails though -- e.g. two words with similar but subtly different definitions might trip you up. For instance, I'm told "the west" refers to different regions in english and japanese, but translating and reverse translating didn't reveal this error.

Writing HomeAssistant scripts.

I’ve used LLMs to reverse engineer some recipes.

I use it for alt text for photos. Mostly because I just don't know how to describe my images.

I thought they would reject it, but my band friends and their peers all like to use AI to brainstorm and draft songs and go from there making their own songs.

I thought that's interesting. I've asked them about it a few times on the lazy way of using AI and just make slop and yeah they're against that

I don't have any close friends who are drawing artists though I know a few through mutual hobbies on discord. They don't seem to be using AI as tools from what I can tell.

My dad and his circle are definitely churning slop though but says it's mostly for in-group joking and shooting the shit, so I guess that's fine

Me personally, I'm still hesitant using it. I'm an "everything" consultant that hates his place in the small IT company but rising my BPD II wave too much to change it. Everyone around me is fine using AI to help analyze and what not documents and stuff to help them work. I can see how they are useful once you know how to ask the thing, but I just don't want to.

I use a model in the app SherpaTTS to read articles from rssaggregator Feedme

As a DJ with ADHD, it's great for helping me decide what to play next when I forget where I was going with the set, and mix myself into a corner. That said, it's not very good at suggesting songs with a compatible BPM and key, but it works well enough for finding tunes with a similar vibe to what I'm already playing. So I just go down the list until I find a tune that can be mixed in.

As for the usual boring stuff, I'm learning how to code by having it write programs for me, and then analyzing the code and trying to figure out how it works. I'm learning a lot more than I would from studying a textbook.

I also used to use it for therapy, but not so much anymore when I figured out that it will just tell you what you want to hear if you challenge it enough. Not really useful for personal growth.

One thing it's useful for is learning how stuff works, using metaphors comparing it to subjects I already understand.