This is a software product in a beta phase, still in development.

I don't grasp why anyone would rush out to explain that it can't be trusted. Leave it on the sidelines and it will be picked by a more motivated creative person.

Many people can not be humbled by the current level of achievement of such nascent tech. Imagine if you didn't have resources to turn to, instead of using ChatGPT or Bing AI. It's a matter of smug nitpicking arrogance.

When Google Translate came out, it was not good. But it got better over time. Its previous versions helped me navigate my first years of university classes in Mandarin, not my mother tongue. I was a poor college student struggling to reach proficiency level in English and cram all coursework in Chinese (French was my high school main language). So, in short I benefitted from a machine-translator, in beta trials. Some classmates from South Korea had some kind of portable translator device that I had never seen or could afford. Back then no smartphones, circa 2012-2013.

This time around, I am a refugee, not recognised by the host country, so literally undocumented. Living in Brussels, jumping from places to places, facing financial issues every week. About two years, I decided to sell photographs, minted on the Ethereum blockchain, as a way to generate revenue on the side so that I can make ends meet. Out of the blue, I jumped on the OpenAI train because I realized that, in the real world I could not hire an assistant or advisor as I wish. Legal limitations for migrants, blablaaa. So, what else? Just survive and scrap all tiny resources to come up with a respectable photography collection. Since Dec2022, I've spend time trying to learn how ChatGPT works and how should I interact with it. This month, I had "breakthroughs". It helped me optimize JavaScript code for a website that I run. I'm using it to draw a sales and marketing strategy. It's useful in writting individual artworks description, in a professional manner. In conclusion, I find ChatGPT useful because at this stage of my life, I am a single individual managing a digital art collection that requires great skills in tech, art and business.

These life situations put me at a disadvantage, compared to other geeks or human beings. I don't have combustible energy to go nitpick what works and what does not. It is a tool that I must use to be more productive. By being one of its self-taught user, I get to know its flaws and walk around them. My outlook on this is shaped my own limited access to material and human resources. I would be shitting on it, only if I had maids at home or could hire a cheap remote coder in South Asia. But I won't because the legal structure in my country of residence get me stuck into these low-skilled jobs. I'm the one who must juggle cleaning, painting, construction gigs, etc. When the day is almost over and I'm left with few hours of free internet, I look out for practical tech tools that I could use to be more productive and earn extra income. Hence, the adoption of ChatGPT.

Links:

1. https://awalkaday.art (website that I built for my photo project. assisted by AI in improving loading time).

2. https://twitter.com/awalkadayart (live feed for the project. find there public documentation and screenshots of experiments with AI as an "advisor" or "assistant").