Hey! New here, trying to replace the other site’s ai communities.
How are you using chatgpt and how?
I pay for the pro plan and use it for fitness, planning, advice, personal research. I also own a small business and often use it for marketing and business operations advice. I think the pro subscription is definitely worth it for my use cases. I never get limited and don’t really need more, but I like that I get access to slightly better models and have priority access when the servers get busy.
Nice! What’s your main reason for paying for plus? I have pro and have never hit any limits. The heaviest usage I use it for is probably writing blog posts. It’s great at giving me the first 75% of the writing/structure and the I fact check and add my own thoughts/opinions where it got kinda boring or just wrong.
As far as advice, for me it’s much more accurate than trusting an online forum post (people can be dramatic online) but yeah still worth taking it with a grain of salt anyways. In my experience it never has a harsh opinion, it normally weighs both sides of a situation pretty well and almost frustratingly won’t give me a straight answer. Which is probably a good thing since I ultimately make up my own mind haha
I paid for plus because I was exceeding the free limits going back and forth a lot. I rarely exceed the limits now. I also pay for NovelAI, so I pay about $50/mo between the two. NovelAI is not as powerful as ChatGPT in a lot of ways, but it is as completely different use case.
I’ve also lost track of what are free features and what is paid, but it’s really freaking handy to be able to send it a picture of a screen full of Linux logs and ask about various things. Voice can be fun, but it’s hard to have a long back and forth. It’s mostly when I’m curious about something while driving.
I also paid for API access for my Discord bot.
I agree that it’s better than advice from random people but I find it really prioritizes making me feel good about myself. Like a weird robo-Tony Robins. It’s hard to explain, and I can’t say the advice wasn’t helpful, and I can talk to it more freely and longer than a real therapist, but it’s like everything else—it gets things superficially right but is often not right about the things that really matter.
It’s also really quick to make excuses and justifications for me. Like it would be really easy to go through life as a narcissist and have ChatGPT help me understand why everything is everyone else’s fault. Not that it can’t give good advice, but I feel the longer we go back and forth it just always winds up taking my side on things.
It’s like being in an echo chamber of one, and it can sound like good advice because it ultimately winds up agreeing with you (that means it’s right, right?). Plus, sometimes you have to recognize that you can’t ask a question within the current conversation because everything that came before is going to bias the answer.
None of this is meant to be against ChatGPT. It’s very useful, if you take what it says with a grain of salt. The deep research, when I’ve used it, has been better than I could do on my own. And for everything it gets wrong, as long as I’m skeptical about the results and apply a healthy dose of my own thinking, it gets me to where I want to be faster than starting from scratch.
I had to write some Python code the other day and I’ve never used it before. I had some functioning code doing exactly what I needed within a couple of hours where it would’ve taken me a couple of days reading blogs and documentation on my own and I’d have struggled with just the basic syntax.
Plus the internet is so full of bullshit that I have to be just as skeptical about anything I read online as I do about ChatGPT anyway. Overall it’s a net positive. But it’s also overhyped and not as capable as a lot of folks think.