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People are using ChatGPT for much more than writing and research

By Becca Caddy, TechRadar

People are using ChatGPT for much more than writing and research

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If you're the kind of person who only dabbles in ChatGPT now and again, you might be getting a bit bored. Maybe you use it to proofread work, plan a trip or make images sometimes. But with the cost of a subscription, and growing concerns about AI’s environmental impact, its effect on our cognitive abilities and what it might mean for jobs, you might reasonably be wondering: is ChatGPT actually useful enough to justify using it? Well, you're not alone. Plenty of AI users have been telling me the same. So I went looking through Reddit threads where ChatGPT users were sharing the more unusual and genuinely useful ways they use it. And I found a few that might actually be worth experimenting with.

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