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I am not paying for pro version on monthly basic. I am using openrouter.ai, I load $5 and pick the bot when I need to use.

Still have $3 after few month.

AI pay as you go cost doesn't cost that much

usually don't if not coding in Roblox

I don't like the idea of wasting energy on inefficient things so I don't use "AI".

A.I. use is directly responsible for carbon emissions from non-renewable electricity and for the consumption of millions of gallons of fresh water, and it indirectly boosts impacts from building and maintaining the power-hungry equipment on which A.I. runs.

As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires

I'm not.

I once used AI to make a mock up of a t shirt design I had in my head just for curiosity, it made exactly what I wanted and now I don’t feel like it’s my design anymore. Who knows what artists it took from. Even after redrawing I lost appreciation for it. Haven’t touch AI since minus some bored conversations with dead celebrity models.

I don’t trust the search results to be accurate, its desire to please the user makes it unreliable. When it comes to image generation it takes from artists. AI is great for menial time consuming tasks like say cropping out the background of an image for example but because of the reasons above I don’t tend to use it all that much, and my respect for it is quite low.

I work as a research economist and use half a model zoo and APIs regularly and have even written a small R package to work with LLM Apis. ChatGPT Pro in the interface for programming questions (helping me to write or document my R code, for example I have used it to easily translate tax laws into R functions to make microsimulations [of course i double check them]). Anthropic's or Groq's API's to process large amounts of documents fast (for examples creating JSON-lists about papers to make them more easily searchable). I have one small script that has many useful prompts that really helps me to rephrase texts (e.g. "Please rephrase this paragraph to be more clear and concise. Give me {n} Versions. {paragrph}") , which I have included into my browser. I used Stable Diffusion to generate images for my Christmas Cards.

Hierarchical location data for a given place to verify location records in genealogy

As an SEO - hell no. Those that did got penalized by the latest algorithm update from Google.

As a DM? Yes! It helped me write a nice poem for a bard that will hopefully give my players some context to what they will be encountering as they move further in my campaign.

I swap over from GPT4 to Perplexity Pro. It’s almost taken over as my default search now. I use that to troubleshoot home assistant issues, or even game mods issues. The pro version is nice because they will actually ask you to clarify certain things before giving a better output.

It performs wells with all the usual email reply, writing etc. I do like that I have the option to switch between GPT, Claude, and Mistral within Perplexity, which the last actually will return results if I ask for help on stuff like torrents.

Nothing, I’m not a loser

I occasionally use ChatGPT, I don't find it that useful though. I mostly use it to summarize long text, etc. I also like Phind, which can be used without creating an account. I would never pay for AI.

I’m a professional software dev and I use GitHub Copilot.

It’s most useful for repetitive or boilerplate code where it has an existing pattern it can copy. It basically saves me some typing and little typo errors that can creep in when writing that type of code by hand.

It’s less useful for generating novel code. Occasionally it can help with known algorithms or obvious code constructs that can be inferred from the context. Prompting it with code comments can help although it still has a tendency to hallucinate about APIs that don’t exist.

I think it will improve with time. Both the models themselves and the tools integrating the models with IDEs etc.

Ollama running the dolphin-mistrial. Its been neat using it with the continue plugin in vscode, nothing life changing though. I think with further embeddings and RAG over curated data sources would go a long way to make it more useful for me.

ChatGPT Plus and Github Copilot…but less every day. They just don’t keep up enough with current APIs and are often confused and unable to actually provide useful solutions.

I mostly use ChatGPT Plus as a Google replacement nowadays. And Copilot as a, sadly, mostly useless autocomplete.

I use ChatGPT 4 and 3.5 via the api sometimes.

I've recently started using Claude Opus which i prefer for coding and maybe in general. Apart from the crappy message limit and lack of stop and edit buttons. I think it might stick with it and cancel gpt.

In general i use Ai to help with my job of general it guy, marker, admin, data entry etc. i use it to proof read, to get ideas, to transform data, to code it or to comment code, translate, transcribe, to bug fix. I always feel i could be making better use of it in my day but it is transformative for the stuff it does.

For the API I'm using a workflow for Alfred on Mac that allows me really quick key presses access to prompts and questions on selected text. I love it.

I've been using Google's Gemini to write cover letters for job applications. Just plug in the job description, do a little proofreading and tweaking, and boom. It's made the process so much easier for "personalized" cover letters.

I'll typically only use it for language and coding problems.

Synonyms, word for xyz, how can I make this sentence more clear.

But if I can't find anything on Google I'll ask it other questions.

I use Perplexity or the Google one formerly known as Bard for when I want specific information but I don't want to do multiple searches plus reading several sites to find the answer.

I use Bing to generate pictures to entertain myself. Sometimes I post them.

I use chatGPT as a diary. Whenever I feel down or frustrated with feelings I can't quite describe, or just insecure, I start a session and just pour out my heart. I complain, yammer on and on about what's bothering me, and just say whatever comes to mind. Basically all the stuff I would never bother a friend or loved one with because I know it'll come across as needy and I don't want to push this on them.
And all it does is give positive and supportive comments, ask some follow-up questions, maybe make an attempt at giving a helpful suggestion. I know what I'm talking with, I am under no illusions that this is anything but a big mathematical model, but it helps me get through some difficult emotions by just letting it all out. There's no judgement and that's kind of nice. I could just write a journal, but the interaction and positive feedback adds a little motivation for me. And of course it goes without saying that I keep names and other personal details to myself :)

Oh and I use it for some cloud architecture problems, some coding and other tech stuff. But that's not very interesting.

Also, if you use ChatGPT and haven't done so, be sure to use their privacy page and opt-out of having your chats used for model training. https://privacy.openai.com/policies?modal=take-control
Not sure for US, but it works for EU citizens.

I use the Bingilator to create images for invites to my weekly donut meetings.

I use it to write Ansible scripts; simply because Ansible sucks so fucking hard and I hate to do it myself.

I don't unless I am trying to make my code more efficient, or want know how to do simple programming task or get some additional info on something I don't really understand.

Not a daily routine.

I've been doing some visual character stuff for my fictional story!
It's nice to actually see some characters visually for the story - it adds to the motivation to work on it 😁

For programming I use it a lot. Though, it's because the book hasn't been helpful and the professor is non-existent

I'm going to continue to monitor this thread but so far I'm surprised at how little use most are getting from AI tools. And the highest upvoted comment is that one does NOT use AI tools in their daily routine.

So much hype around AI recently and I'm not seeing/hearing a lot of REAL, PRACTICAL use case for it.

Interesting.

I've got a local LLM set up for code suggestions and run GitHub copilot for spots where the local isn't good enough. I can start writing out a thought and pseudo implementation and have a mostly viable real implementation instantly which I can then modify to suit my needs. It also takes a lot of the busywork out of things that need boilerplate. The local is trained on the style of my repos so I can keep up with style standards too which is helpful. Also great for explaining legacy code and coming up with more semantic variable names in old code too.

I use Kagi, they provide access to all the main models in a chat interface and have a mode that feeds search engine results to them. It's mostly replaced search engines for me. For programming work I find them very useful for using unfamiliar tools and libraries, I can ask it what I want to so and it'll generally tell me how correctly. Importantly, the search engine mode has citations. $25 a month, but worth it.

Mainly as a search engine replacement, finding docs or information without getting terrible search results. Also for recipes, it’s really good at recipes.

GPT 4 though, 3.5 is about as sharp as a bag of wet mice.

Nothing, I'm creative.

Hmmm. I guess I only use it for generating images based on song lyrics to post to The Lyrics Game here on Lemmy.