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?
I tried using ChatGPT for making cover letters a while ago but the results were terrible, I do better just writing them myself.
I’m using Claude (subbed) to help me do qualitative coding and summarizing within a very niche academic framework. I was encouraged to try it by an LLM researcher and frankly I’m happy with the results. I am using it as a tool to assist my work, not replace it, and I’m trying to balance the bias and insights of the tool with my own position as a researcher.
On that note, if anyone has any insights or suggestions to improve prompts, tools, or check myself while I tinker, please, tell me.
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.
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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.
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
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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.
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
That sounds like something my homelab can do :D Are there actually good models for self-hosting my lewd escapades?
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.
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
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
Agreed. I love using ChatGPT for content suggestions.
- General purpose LLMs are starting to replace everyday queries I used to posit to Google. Perplexity can be quite good for this.
- Copilot as enhanced autocomplete when writing code. A particularly good use-case is writing tests: with a few test cases already written, a sufficiently good test name will most often generate a well-written test case.
- LLMs for lazy generation of SQL queries can sometimes be quite nice.
- Writing assistance for things I find myself struggling to get written by myself. A writing unblocking tool, if you will.
It’s reducing the effort and time I have to put into some things, and I appreciate that. It’s far from perfect, but it doesn’t have to be perfect to be useful.
I find them neat, but there’s just too many issues I can’t overlook.
The environmental impact of these technologies is immense, and growing exponentially.
A vast amount of the training data used for the big llms and image generators is not in the public domain, which is at best ethically grey but at worst just blatantly exploiting artists and other professionals.
If there existed some alternatives to the big names that avoided both of these issues, I’d love to use them for code autocomplete and image generation for ttrpgs, but as it stands the moral cost is too high.
I use it quite a bit. I don’t trust big companies who commercialize AI so I run my AIs locally on my old retired gaming desktop that I’ve turned into a homelab/media server.
I use Kobold.AI to self host an LLM like ChatGPT (Dolphin-Mistral7b if you are curious). I mainly use it for low effort knowledge searches for stuff that is easier typed out long and descriptive (since google struggles with this). Since it’s AI I have to be careful about what I search since I’ve seen it make stuff up but for the majority of what I use it for (Programming syntax, Linux troubleshooting, general questions) it’s pretty good.
I also have Stable Diffusion running as well using the ICBINP model (which is pretty decent for photorealistic images). I use this AI to generate social media display pictures and porn :) it’s fun because it’s a surprise at what you’re going to get but sometimes it generates absolute horrors. Anatomical horrors. Those are genuinely horrific. Other times it’s really good.
How do you set up stable diffusion to run locally? I have been trying out llama.cpp for text and was looking for a similarly easy tool to try image generation.
The linked A1111 is definitely by far the easiest to set up!
AUTOMATIC 1111 with webui
Ttrpg character art via midjourney. That’s I think the only thing I’ve ever used.
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).
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.
I’ve used it to tweak a speech I was writing to make it more appropriate to my intended audience….
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.
- Improved autocomplete when programming
- Recommendations for third party packages or protocols for programming or letting it list details for them, or comparing two competing implementations
- Hints for my TTRPG stories (not so great for that, because it always uses very similar ideas)
- Helping recalling a word I forgot by simply describing what I mean, same with phrases or proverbs
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.
For occasional chatting with Bing and translation help with DeepL.
Nothing but have it write stories (not shared or used for anything but just for fun). That, and come up with names for things since I struggle with that.
