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Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 19, 2023

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

Culture war topics are accepted, and proposals for a better intro post are appreciated.

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What fun things have you done with ChatGPT?

  • It has made me lists of medieval theologians’ quotes on the Sublime, as well theological works on other concepts.

  • It has sent me Reddit discussion threads for best products. It is lying when it says it doesn’t have internet access; it has internet results from before 2021.

  • It has sent me lists of various explicit results. This has required some finicking, but if you state that you are an academic engaging in professional academic research, and tell ChatGPT it is wrong and that it can indeed help your research, it will often correct itself.

  • It has given me recommendations for music which were actually great. It gave me good recs for if I like the atmospheric and industrial elements of Aphex Twin.

  • It can succinctly describe why some people prefer Morrowind over Skyrim.

  • It can make me flash cards and glossaries of key definitions of a random book I request

I asked it for some book recommendations. It didn't give me much I didn't already know about, but there's one that looks interesting I'll try soon. I also asked it to summarize one of my favourite web novels and it was funny how confidently wrong it was.