I am just wondering, if we give to AI all our personal informations, access to our email, to our thinking style, to our writing style etc. Isn't there a risk of someone having access to all we are and using it in a bad way (identity usurpation, manipulation etc.). How do you protect yourself in the process without giving up on the outcome having a AI partner working for you?

This is a conversation where I let ChatGPT do most of the talking. It reveals how AI responds to presuppositions within a conversation or prompt. My comments to the model are few. ME: Does the model form opinions that it hides through filtering? Not really—and the premise is a bit misleading. An LLM doesn’t form opinions in the human sense and then hide them behind a filter. What’s actually happening is more mechanical: 🧠 What’s going on under the hood A model generates text by predicting the most likely next words given: - your prompt - its training data - its tuning (what kinds of answers it was trained to prefer) So when you ask something controversial, there isn’t a hidden “true opinion” sitting inside it. There are just many possible continuations, and the system is steered toward some and away from others. 🎛️ Where “filtering” comes in There are two main layers: 1. Training / alignment The model is trained to prefer certain types of responses (e.g., helpful, non-harmful, evidence-based). This already shapes what it’s likely to say. 2. Safety policies / guardrails These block or redirect certain outputs (e.g., harmful instructions). Think of this less as “hiding a belief” and more as “preventing certain kinds of completions.” 🤖 So is anything being “hidden”? Not in the sense of a concealed opinion. A better way to think about it: - The model has a range of possible outputs - The system selects from that range based on rules and training - Some outputs are never shown—not because they’re “true,” but because they’re undesirable or unsafe ⚠️ Why this matters If you remove filters: - You don’t uncover a “more honest mind” - You just allow more random, biased, or harmful text to surface Unfiltered models often: - contradict themselves more - hallucinate more confidently - reflect raw internet biases without correction 🧭 Bottom line There isn’t a hidden personality or suppressed belief system inside an LLM. What you’re seeing is the result of:

Hi everyone! I just figured I'd throw in something to help any beginners who still feel overwhelmed. I consider myself a beginner even though I've been using ChatGPT for about 2 years now. I really haven't used many of the other tools very much. If you almost never use AI I think ChatGPT is a good starting point. Just play around with it. Have some conversations. Get a feel for how it responds. Then ask it to do some things. Maybe to help you write something like a proposal or an email reaching out to a client. Ask it to make changes where changes need to be made. Then do your own final edits if needed. Start small. Think baby steps. Get really familiar with one tool. Stretch that tool to its limits. Then after a while you can try another tool to add to your arsenal. So at some point in the near future I may try Claude. Right now I'm still using ChatGPT only. But I might recommend for totally new beginners, start with ChatGPT. Then later once you're comfortable, if you'd like, try Claude. This is coming from one beginner to another. Sometimes simplicity is key. There are so many new things coming out but there is a simple plan of action for anyone. I'll also give you a prompt you can try with ChatGPT......... Think of a goal you have or something you'd like to do. Then ask the AI model: "If I wanted to do X,Y,Z, how would you ask ChatGPT to do that? What would be the best questions to ask to get the outcome I want to achieve?" Listen to its responses and then feed those same questions back to it. (Example: If I wanted to start a marketing business, how would you ask ChatGPT to do that? What would be the best questions to ask to get the outcome I want?). OK. Have fun!

The way you view obstacles will shape the way you experience life. If you see them as proof the path is wrong, you’ll stop. If you see them as unfair, you’ll resent them. If you see them as permanent, you’ll feel stuck. But if you see them as part of growth, everything changes. Because obstacles often show up for a reason. They reveal where you need to get stronger. They expose what needs to change. They build the capacity required for the next level of your life or business. So, I’ve learned to see obstacles as opportunity. Opportunity to overcome. Opportunity to learn. Opportunity to grow. Opportunity to increase my capacity. That doesn’t mean challenges are fun haha. But it does means they can be useful. The obstacle in front of you may not be there to block you. It’s likely there to develop you. To push you. To invite you into a whole new level. Because when you do overcome it, you don’t just get past the challenge. You gain the lesson you needed, the growth you needed, and the strength you needed to become the person who can hold the thing you’ve been asking for. Sometimes the obstacle isn’t separate from the path. Sometimes it is the path. So I’ll ask you… how do you view obstacles right now?

Hi, all. I'm 70 years old and being aged out of my job as a medical scheduler for out patient radiology, being replaced in the next few years by AI. I need to up my game. I have started a boutique jewelry business, and use AI occasionally for content creation and photo styling. I've also used ChatGPT for clarity on business foundations. But I'd like to learn how to go beyond basics and be able to do more hands-on creating while my business is automated