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Something I found interesting about reading this thread is that it made me wonder how many people think of ChatGPT as primarily a tool for writing things for you I use ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini possibly 100+ times a day and NONE of those uses are to produce writing that I then share with other people

why would you use it at all!? its destroying the environment

I've been tracking that topic pretty closely and I don't think the environmental impact is as significant as is widely believed simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ener...

even if its half as bad as commonly reported, its still a catastrophy. using these ai platforms is absurdly dumb, especially for the smartest among us.

hey, we're all hypocrites, but, AI is just unnecessary and so grotesque .. that shiny new toy can solve everything. while ignoring the fact that all the environmental progress we've made over decades is being erased so that people can make cartoon avatars of themselves without having art skill

Very much depends on what you're using AI for I get a very meaningful amount of work done with it on a daily basis, mostly with code, to the point that I'm working on a significantly wider range of interesting projects I wrote this two years ago, still true today simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/27/...