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

You are  completely right... We have ego... We have humor... We are creative also  ...

People with inflated ego, you included, will side with each other.

But how will you describe the few  who used as their first posts here,in this A.I. and Audiogon posting thread,  the word "narcissist" to qualify those who as ghdprentice participated in a positive contributing  way ?  A positive or negative participation ? 

 

Narcissist being also a medical term is not an insult if i read you correctly ?

Now we are inflated ego ?

It remind me of the way Adam Smith  read Bernard Mandeville, replacing the word "vices" used by the genius Mandeville  describing the creative Hive (market)  and the way the plagiarist A. Smith borrow the term "vices" a bit too much truthful and replaced it by the word " self interest" ...Hayek knew it and called Mandeville"our master to us all"... I am not sure you, after Faustuss-Smith  use of the word narcissist,  are like Mandeville  the real genius though....

It is another story though...

I must be then  a bit an "inflated ego" it seems posting so much words as answer  ... You are right ... But i tried not to insult people ...

Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more

nar·cis·sist

/ˈnärsəsəst/

noun

noun: narcissist; plural noun: narcissists

a person who has an excessive interest in or admiration of themselves.

Narcissism versus Narcissistic Personality Disorder

 

Narcissism is a trait, while NPD is a pervasive pattern of behaviors that impacts all areas of life and functioning.  It is possible to have narcissistic traits and not meet criteria for NPD. 
 

source: https://www.family-institute.org/behavioral-health-resources/understanding-narcissism-and-narcissistic-personality-disorder-npd

I don’t think being a narcissist is a requirement when it comes to being creative. 

A qualificative means something in a context...

 Using a specialized word or term outside of a medical context easily and obviously appears as an insult, especially if it is presented as self-evident.

Erik_ Squires and ghdprentice are not narcissists and not even inflated ego...

Period.

But you are right about me: i will accept to be qualified "inflated ego"..

Truth matter.

by the way as an ego too, eat your own pudding ...

 
 

 

 

Now you quitted the diminutive and innocuous use of "inflated ego"  and you go back using "narcissist" insulting accusation again...smiley

All this to win a point you already lost...

Poor thing!

I gave you the win...

 

I don’t think being a narcissist is a requirement when it comes to being creative.