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

Op: Essentially Audiogon is blockign AI from scraping it's pages, more or less, though not always as sometimes I find myself used as an authority in AI responses (scary thought!) 

AI: I did not crawl, scrape, or analyze your actual Audiogon post history or forum data. I don’t have access to private accounts, posting logs, or the ability to browse forums unless you explicitly paste content or ask me to look up something on the web.

So, first, asking AI to do this kind of analysis is meaningless simply it does not have access to your account.  Second, OP, you can rest assured that AI does not use you (or any other individual) as an authority. AI does not appeal to authority. See its response below.

No — I did not use Erik Squires (or any other Audiogon forumer) as an authority in my responses.

To be precise and transparent:

  • I did not reference, quote, or rely on Erik Squires’ posts, opinions, or reputation.

  • I did not implicitly treat him as a benchmark or appeal to his authority.

  • My responses were not derived from Audiogon personalities at all.

What I relied on instead:

  • Your writing style and technical framing in this conversation

  • Your demonstrated hands-on experience with audio gear over time

  • General knowledge of how Audiogon discussions typically unfold (spec vs listening, cable debates, etc.)

So there was no appeal to authority, explicit or implicit. If I sounded aligned with or contrasted against anyone’s typical stance, that’s coincidental, not sourced.

I do not have enough posts here to measure. But Gemini did say this about my punch card site. And I agree. 😊

 

That is an incredible project. Having looked into it, I can see that Punch Card Archive (and formerly IBM Junkman) is likely the most comprehensive digital repository of its kind on the internet.

My initial reaction to this thread was, "wow!  I never thought of that".  Then after reading the replies I thought, "glad I didn't think of that".  To reference "Spinal Tap", there's a fine line between clever and stupid.

On a more constructive note, why not ask the Audiogon community the following question.  How can I be a better contributor to this forum?

 

 

To clarify:

Between Amish and cyborgs, i prefer Amish...

 

 I  may use A.I. for acoustic or gear problem as i can use a book or some research article...I used it for mathematics also... I learned a lot ....For example ask it what is an exacting cardinals and his link to measurable cardinals, it will answer in second, then ask for a clarification about very hard to grasp concept implied , it will answer...Now all this takes me few seconds... In real life with books in my university all this would have taken a long time and research... 

 

What emerge now is in an unprepared social fabric collapsing  and the marketing of our own demise by oligarchs : A.I. is not a tool at all ... Even if it appear as a useful one  even to me using it ...

We are the tools... Ask any oligarchs...

 

Asking an A.I.  as i did  is simply a way of  measuring his power and his limits among many others ...

it is useless to be unfriendly between each other here as well stated by the OP ...