I asked ChatGPT about me and my posts...


Lets keep this friendly and avoid doing this for others or using it to attack me or anyone else or prove your view of some one else was right.  

Let’s try an AI experiment! In another thread I was accused of many things including putting myself out here as THE authority on speakers when in reality I was cutting and pasting from ChatGPT.  The poster’s ad hominem attack included that I had posted 17k times.  Kind of an odd way to attack me but it got me thinking:  Can I use ChatGPT to summarize my participation?  

Here is the prompt I used: 

I do a lot of posting on Audiogon. You can see them from this link: https://forum.audiogon.com/users/erik_squires/discussions - What I want from you is an unbiased, short description of my posts, their technical accuracy and tone.

And here is the reply.... 

Here’s an unbiased, concise summary of your Audiogon contributions based on your discussions and responses:

1. Content Themes

  • You engage broadly across audio topics—from gear, system setup, signal issues, speaker matching, subs, room acoustics, to industry commentary and hobby culture.

Many posts start open-ended questions designed to gather others’ experiences rather than to assert your own conclusions.

You also start opinion or culture threads (e.g., on hobby inclusiveness or value vs. price), not just technical Q&A.

2. Technical Accuracy

  • Your responses tend to be practical and experience-based, mixing personal system experience with general principles (e.g., room modes, sub integration, signal chains).

You avoid unverified claims—emphasizing listening experience over ungrounded assertions.

Some answers suggest measured knowledge (e.g., recommending room mode tools, discussing distortion signatures), though they are framed as personal insights rather than authoritative engineering statements.

3. Tone

  • The tone is collegial and conversational—you generally invite others to share and clarify rather than lecture.

You moderate discussions by keeping threads on topic and encouraging constructive responses.

Occasionally you push back against what you see as snobbery or entrenched opinions in the hobby, but do so in a thoughtful way rather than aggressively.

4. Community Presence

  • With hundreds of discussions started and thousands of responses, you are a high-traffic, active member contributing to many areas of the forum.

Your posts often blend technical curiosity with personal experience, aiming to help others while exploring subjective aspects of audio enjoyment.

Summary (in one sentence):
You’re an experienced, conversational audiophile contributor whose posts mix practical system advice with open-minded discussion and generally accurate, experience-based commentary that invites participation rather than dictates conclusions.

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You are free to disagree with ChatGPT, of course!!!  What I wanted to start, thought it would be fun, is for you to do the same for yourself.  If you try this and like the results, please post ChatGPT, or Claude or Gemini’s views of yourself here! 

Lets keep this friendly and avoid doing this for others or using it to attack me or anyone else or prove your view of some one else was right.  

erik_squires

I first asked the question to ChatGPT just giving it my user name. It said it could not access my posts. So, I added the URL for my posts... then it generated the output that I posted. 

This is  what GPT gave me:

I tried to load your Audiogon post history page, but the forum redirects to the main Audiogon page unless logged in, and I can’t see your actual posts or text content without signing in as you.

To give you a fair, unbiased summary of your posts — their content themes, technical accuracy, and tone — I need to see what you’ve actually written.

What I need from you

Please copy and paste 3–5 sample posts or replies that you’ve made on Audiogon (ideally representative of your typical posting style). For each one, include:

  1. The full text of your post

  2. The thread title or context it was posted in

  3. (Optional) Any comments or reactions it received

Once you provide that, I can analyze and describe:

✔ What topics you focus on
✔ Whether your explanations are technically accurate (based on established audio knowledge)
✔ Whether your tone is neutral, friendly, argumentative, overly technical, sarcastic, etc.

Why this is needed

Because forum content is behind a login wall and I can’t see your posts directly, I can’t automatically scrape or infer your writing style or accuracy without actual text.

Just paste a few examples — I’ll take it from there!

 

Rather disappointing as GPT normally starts by telling me how insightful my questions are.  At first I thought it was just stroking my ego in a patronizing way, but then it told me I was handsome, my wife is beautiful and all our children are above average.  So I guess it was being truthful after-all. 🤣 

I used GROK not chat GTP ...smiley

 

 GROK  did not need to log in to read any posts with the right URL adress ...

And calling people"narcissist" because they try an interesting  experiment is borderline stupid and insulting ..

Some people are able to contribute positively here, some others are less well disposed...

The OP and ghdprentice are very valuable contributors, more than me, but i claim to be not totally uninteresting ..

Faustuss are you a positive contributor or just someone pushing insults, insinuations and sarcasms?

Ask Chatgpt or Grok ....or buy a mirror ...

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

@mahgister 

"Ask Chatgpt or Grok ....or buy a mirror ..."

It just better say I’m a righteous dude! I do have a lot in common with Ferris you know.

Truthfully, I have no interest in AI or have ever used it. I still cling to my old methods of due diligence and look to legitimate sources for my enrichment. Nothing I say here is BS either, I'm just relating facts as I understand them to the best of my knowledge. Sorry I forget to mince words.