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ChatGPT. Threat or a Blessing in Disguise?

Have you come across a time when you come up with a brilliant idea, but it goes away? Millions of thoughts are going through a human mind every second. People have come up with various techniques to record their thoughts like journaling and taking notes. Wouldn’t it be convenient if you had a secure storage for your thoughts that you can access anytime? Well, let me tell you there is a perfect piece of technology that exists to do exactly that!

ChatGPT exists since 2022 and has evolved over the years into a powerful tool. From day one this technology was there to hear, save, and expand your thoughts. It is a perfect place to help people learn, create, and become stronger thinkers. Despite the popular believe that ChatGPT is there to replace the inner voice and effort of a human, it is simply wrong. Yes, it can be used to find shortcuts and make it do your work for you, but it wasn’t designed for that.

For decades, technology was created with one intent and purpose, but people found ways to misuse it. When the internet was first created, it wasn’t intended to bring in pop up ads, hacking, malware, spread of false and misleading information, or cyberbullying.

There is a concept such as intent vs. effect. Intent refers to what a technology was designed to do. While effect is what actually happens when that technology is released and used by people. For instance, social media platforms were made with an intention to connect people and share information. While the effect of social media apps still accomplishes both goals, there are still occurrences of misinformation, bullying, and other issues. Creators of such technology can’t fully control how it is used, especially when millions of people are involved.

ChatGPT is one of those tools that was created with one intention, but is unfortunately used for the wrong purposes by people who try to cheat through their problems and greedy corporations. Once you discover its true powers, you will never look at it as a threat to replace you again. Instead, you will see it as a personal assistant to help you become a more powerful human.

The core features of ChatGPT are capable for it to serve as an archive for your thoughts. You can ask any question or share any idea that comes to mind. The AI will respond and help you clarify or expand your thoughts. All the chats are saved, so you will never lose those thoughts unless you choose to delete the chats. One more, slightly hidden, feature of ChatGPT is that you can ask it to save anything you want and organize what you save in a way that makes sense to you. This means you can save anything you talk about across all chats and retrieve that anytime. Yes, it will remember!

Let’s say you want to keep a diary with your personal thoughts. A lot of times people have a physical diary. The issue is that this option is not always reliable. Anyone could pick up that diary and look at it. With ChatGPT, this would not be an issue. You can tell it to quietly save anything important you want to save. The beauty is that it will do it all in the background and only show you what you have saved so far when you ask it to do so. So, you can keep a diary where your thoughts will be saved and organized the way you want them to be. No one is going to see your diary except for you and ChatGPT. The other beautiful thing is that this tool is AI and is not there to go around and tell everyone about your diary. It was simply not designed for that. Yes, the developers are still behind it, but they are not going to go through your chats when there are millions of people using this tool, and they have updates and bugs to work on.

So, my take on ChatGPT is that it is a highly misunderstood tool and in reality is a blessing in disguise if it is used right with the right intentions. What are your thoughts?