A recent Forbes article advises that all the ChatGPT users must avoid the following 5 mistakes “and ensure we’re always using these powerful new tools in a way that’s helpful to us rather than setting us up for embarrassment or failure”.

• Believing everything it tells you. “The key lesson is to check and double-check anything factual that it tells you. […] it’s important to have stringent editing and reviewing processes in place for everything you publish. Of course, this is important for human-created content, too. But putting too much trust in the capabilities of AI can easily lead to mistakes that can make you look silly and could even damage your reputation.
• Using it to replace original thinking. “It’s important to remember that, in some ways, AI – particularly language-based generative AI like ChatGPT – is similar to a search engine. Specifically, it’s entirely reliant on the data it can access, which in this case, is the data it’s been trained on. One consequence of this is that it will only regurgitate or reword existing ideas; it won’t create anything truly innovative or original like a human can.
• Forgetting about privacy. “When we’re working with cloud-based AI engines like ChatGPT or Dall-E 2, we don’t have any expectation of privacy. […] All of our interactions, including the data we input and the output it generates, are considered fair game for its own systems to ingest, store and learn from.
• Becoming over-reliant. “Developing an excessive reliance on AI could easily become a problem for a number of reasons. […] over-reliance on AI could prevent us from developing and honing certain skills of our own that the AI tools are filling in for. This might include research, writing and communicating, summarizing, translating content for different audiences, or structuring information.
• Losing the human touch. “Generative AI tools make it easy to automate emails, social messaging, content creation, and many other aspects of business and communications. At the same time, it can make it difficult to convey nuances and be an obstacle to empathy and relationship-building.

Author Bernard Barr adds further “It’s essential to remember that the idea is to use AI to augment our humanity – by freeing up time spent on mundane and repetitive tasks so that we can concentrate on what makes us human. This means interpersonal relationships, creativity, innovative thinking, and fun. If we start trying to automate those parts of our lives, we will be building a future for ourselves that’s just as damaging as the worst that the AI doom-mongers are predicting.”