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What about using it to write messages in gift cards? I always struggle to find words for such a thing. Its pretty cool to ask it to tailor a message to a parti

What about using it to write messages in gift cards? I always struggle to find words for such a thing. Its pretty cool to ask it to tailor a message to a particular family member then get ChatGPT to tweak it until it sounds like something you would like to say to the person.

tartoran 4y ago
Yeah, sounds like a good idea. If/when it becomes a thing people can finally skip reading the card and land it straight into the trash. Beware of the tsunami of autogenerated stuff to come upon the world, it will become tiring. Perhaps writing (by hand) a smiley on a post-it would be more meaningful
- passwordoops 4y ago
  Until the handwriting bots become ubiquitous: https://hackaday.com/2021/10/30/handwriting-robots-are-sending-snail-mail/ https://hackaday.com/2021/10/30/handwriting-robots-are-sendi...
- CTDOCodebases 4y ago
  > Perhaps writing (by hand) a smiley on a post-it would be more meaningful That's good advice. Thankyou :) > Beware of the tsunami of autogenerated stuff to come upon the world, it will become tiring. I think the same. There will be high quality content that is basically indistinguishable but I think there will also be low quality content that gives the uncanny valley feeling or just annoyance by the repetitiveness of the writing style. If there was any reason to crack down on bots in social media it's this. Otherwise they will corrupt the training data. I'm surprised OpenAI isn't being more active in this area. I think traditional web search is about to get absolutely trashed both in quality and by usability. Auto Generated blogs that have seemingly useful but inaccurate information with affiliate links. ChatGPT is about to do to search engines what the internet did to the media. Things that "sound right" will start to outrank correct information because all the human voices will get crowded out. Interestingly though I was using Chat GPT to suggest recipes. I am yet to try any out but they are a good source of inspiration. It fun to just say "write another recipe like the recipe you just mentioned but with more vegetables and spices that I can cook in under 20 minutes" I think traditional search is like sculpting a rock. You have to precisely chisel away until you get a good search phrase. With ChatGPT it's more like sculpting with clay. The search phrase is added to and accentuated until you end up with the desired result.
  - vonunov 4y ago
    > low quality content that gives the uncanny valley feeling or just annoyance by the repetitiveness of the writing style. This is already a thing, courtesy of hordes of people who are heavy on "content marketing" and light on actual writing skill.
- seydor 4y ago
  I can see motorized pen device that fakes handwritten messages. Will sell well, until people get sick of it
  - AndrewOMartin 4y ago
    Judas!
spacebanana7 4y ago
I've found it similarly great for writing postcards and leaving cards. In all of these situations having 30-50 words of fluent language with a friendly vibe is still much better than a generic "Wishing you well" or "See you soon".
- mst 4y ago
  I tend to write something like "You're awesome! ... pretend I figured out how to write something less trite here because I'm terrible at it." Anybody who's known me for more than a week tends to be entirely unsurprised, laugh, and appreciate the sentiment.

tartoran 4y ago

Yeah, sounds like a good idea. If/when it becomes a thing people can finally skip reading the card and land it straight into the trash. Beware of the tsunami of autogenerated stuff to come upon the world, it will become tiring. Perhaps writing (by hand) a smiley on a post-it would be more meaningful

passwordoops 4y ago
Until the handwriting bots become ubiquitous: https://hackaday.com/2021/10/30/handwriting-robots-are-sending-snail-mail/ https://hackaday.com/2021/10/30/handwriting-robots-are-sendi...
CTDOCodebases 4y ago
> Perhaps writing (by hand) a smiley on a post-it would be more meaningful That's good advice. Thankyou :) > Beware of the tsunami of autogenerated stuff to come upon the world, it will become tiring. I think the same. There will be high quality content that is basically indistinguishable but I think there will also be low quality content that gives the uncanny valley feeling or just annoyance by the repetitiveness of the writing style. If there was any reason to crack down on bots in social media it's this. Otherwise they will corrupt the training data. I'm surprised OpenAI isn't being more active in this area. I think traditional web search is about to get absolutely trashed both in quality and by usability. Auto Generated blogs that have seemingly useful but inaccurate information with affiliate links. ChatGPT is about to do to search engines what the internet did to the media. Things that "sound right" will start to outrank correct information because all the human voices will get crowded out. Interestingly though I was using Chat GPT to suggest recipes. I am yet to try any out but they are a good source of inspiration. It fun to just say "write another recipe like the recipe you just mentioned but with more vegetables and spices that I can cook in under 20 minutes" I think traditional search is like sculpting a rock. You have to precisely chisel away until you get a good search phrase. With ChatGPT it's more like sculpting with clay. The search phrase is added to and accentuated until you end up with the desired result.
- vonunov 4y ago
  > low quality content that gives the uncanny valley feeling or just annoyance by the repetitiveness of the writing style. This is already a thing, courtesy of hordes of people who are heavy on "content marketing" and light on actual writing skill.
seydor 4y ago
I can see motorized pen device that fakes handwritten messages. Will sell well, until people get sick of it
- AndrewOMartin 4y ago
  Judas!

spacebanana7 4y ago

I've found it similarly great for writing postcards and leaving cards. In all of these situations having 30-50 words of fluent language with a friendly vibe is still much better than a generic "Wishing you well" or "See you soon".

mst 4y ago
I tend to write something like "You're awesome! ... pretend I figured out how to write something less trite here because I'm terrible at it." Anybody who's known me for more than a week tends to be entirely unsurprised, laugh, and appreciate the sentiment.