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TLDR: I am worried about how to use AI without making yourself more stupid. Your personal rules and guidelines are very welcome 🙂

Hello Everyone!

I am a Master Student in Computer Science. I use AI ChatBots somewhat regularly in my day to day. I have set certain rules for my self to enable me to learn better and not just outsource my work to the AI.

For example: In CS the mathematical notation is often very inconsistent. So often times I read homework and dont understand what is meant by symbol in this context, either stemming from incorrect placement or general ambiguity. I then ask the AI what this symbol means. I never ask for the solution. In the worst case I might ask for hints but only If I have no idea on how to solve a problem.

I never ask for code. I might ask how to do x and y efficiently In a specific language but never a whole function or a whole problem. More like (and this is trivial) how to reverse a list. But I try to google before asking the AI since most often solutions lie ready on stackoverflow.

Searching for scientific papers is also something I do often with AI since I find navigating scholar to be somewhat confusing and time intensive. Like I am finding papers on the topic but It is near impossible for me to judge wether a publication is foundational, a classic, or fringe.

Now I find there are a lot of grey areas with AI usage and I fear that I might slip into bad habits that make me skip important learning steps. I therefore wanted to write a strict rule set that I can follow for „ethical“ AI usage. Not ethical in the sense wether its good or bad for the planet or society (these are extremely valid questions better asked in a separate discussion) but ethical in the sense of self-care and -growth. Like when does an interaction with AI go from helpful to harmful, when do loose out by beginning the interaction in the first place.

I try to orient my AI interactions around what is useful to me without AI doing it for me. I could spend 3-5 hours searching for papers on a topic, trying to to understand which role which paper plays and only afterwards actually reading them or I could just ask AI and get to reading papers in 5min. In both cases I want to read a paper and learn what it says.

What are your personal guidelines? Do you have strict rules? I am really curious how other people handle this. I see great risk with personal AI usage and I want to be conscious about how to do it safely for me.

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i just want something to find recomendations for things chat gpt wont give me

I run a small home goods store online, a simple ecom. It’s me and one part-timer doing literally everything, and customer messages have become the thing that eats my entire day. It’s the same stuff on loop, where’s my order, do you ship to X, what’s the return window, bla bla bla

I want to stick a chatbot on the site to take the repetitive load off.
I’m not technical and every option I look into eventually throws API docs or “host it yourself” at me and loses me completely.

So I’m looking for something no-code, where I can put my policies and product info, connect it to Shopify so it can check real order status, and get it live without hiring a dev I can’t afford.

Nothing enterprise, just something that holds up and doesn’t make me learn to code. What’s actually worked for you?

At first I thought it would just be a gimmick, but some of the conversations get weirdly immersive once the AI starts remembering details and matching your vibe better.

been looking around for a better NSFW AI chatbot lately because most of the ones i’ve tried either feel too filtered, too repetitive, or just forget everything after a few chats.

mainly looking for something with:

– good memory
– less scripted conversations
– image generation/visuals
– anime + realistic characters if possible
– decent free option
– conversations that actually feel natural long-term

a lot of recommendation threads feel outdated once you actually spend real time using these apps/sites.

some are good visually but the chats feel robotic after a while. some are decent for roleplay but forget context constantly. others feel way too censored once you try doing anything creative.

curious what people are actually sticking with long-term right now because i’m still trying to find one that actually feels consistent after more than a few conversations.

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• Copying long things messed up formatting too often.

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• Not all webpages/documents are readable by AI.

• Splitting code or log snippets in multiple chunks.

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