# IRL: how do you use AI

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**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:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
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I’ve used it when the topic I’m researching doesn’t lend itself to easily-searchable keywords. For example, I was trying to remember the name of low-budget smut film I saw back in the day, and the key things I remember from it – specifically, appallingly low production values, scenes being reused frame by frame multiple times throughout the movie, an actor’s atrociously bad teeth, a guy having a chauffeur but who rides around in a junker – don’t exactly work with Google searches, so I used ChatGPT. For whatever it’s worth, ChatGPT completely failed. It suggested a movie that, though I can’t find it anywhere, I’m pretty sure isn’t the right one. For whatever it’s worth, [the SDMB wasn’t much help](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-name-this-1970s-1980s-ish-british-smut-film/1013019), either.

I also asked ChatGPT about a book I remember from my childhood, of which I have only vague memories, and it admitted defeat rather than making something up, so that’s encouraging.

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