# IRL: how do you use AI

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irl-how-do-you-use-ai/1012811>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Tags:** ai\
**Created:** [January 10, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irl-how-do-you-use-ai/1012811 "2025-01-10T18:03:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irl-how-do-you-use-ai/1012811/28 "2025-01-11T03:04:52Z")

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In my case I asked it to do math and it got it wrong (and/or I asked the question wrong).

I would never have AI write a post for me.

> [@The Miselucidation of Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-miselucidation-of-whack-a-mole/995332/1):
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> As continued from the [Request: don’t put ChatGPT or other AI-generated content in non-AI threads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-dont-put-chatgpt-or-other-ai-generated-content-in-non-ai-threads/994241/106): No, because the answer you gave was wrong. Not just subtly wrong, but blatantly, egregiously, obviously wrong by inspection, to the point of actually contradicting itself. And then you posted a second, ‘corrected’ response that still wrong. All of this after two posters posted the correct answer for you, calculated by using a knowledge of basic mechanics or a formula that could be easily refere…

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