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

Apparently, increasing numbers of people are turning to ChatGPT for mental health guidance. Given what's been reported/demonstrated in this thread, I have to wonder what the implications might be. . . 

  This is an interesting thread. I have yet to be courageous enough to try this, let alone share the results online. I recently Googled myself after a career in law enforcement based on interaction with gang members and convicts and was disturbed to see how much information was available after years of effort to have my info deleted. While reading your thread the music side of me kicked in and the Peter Green song started playing in my head.                 - I can’t help about the shape I’m in
I can’t sing, I ain’t pretty and my legs are thin
But don’t ask me what I think of you
I might not give the answer that you want me to
Oh well

Now when I talked to God I knew he’d understand
He said, "Sit by me, and I’ll be your guiding hand"
But don’t ask me what I think of you
I might not give the answer that you want me to
Oh well - My apologies for the lousy punctuation as I’m on my iPhone. Regards , Mike B. 

AI is useful if you can 

1. provide a prompt as comprehensive as possible 

2. use your own brain to decipher the answer 

There are many uses and it’s constantly evolving. 
Try grok unhinged. But that will deflate your ego. 

I take this as a fun exercise, not anything more. As best I can tell, ChatGPT, Gemini. etc., are far from "intelligent" but sometimes-when they don't make mistakes-can do well at assimilating publicly available information-or opinion- and regurgitating it, but I don't think it can subjectively and intelligently evaluate the source of the information it scrapes or reach routinely reliable conclusions..

But for you believers, I just ask ChatGPT if there was any evidence that expensive cables from companies like Nordost, Transparent and Siltech provided significant audible benefits over inexpensive but well made cables. The man behind the curtain said,

"Blind/double blind tests-the gold standard for determining whether people can actually hear differences-routinely find that listeners cannot reliably distinguish expensive cables from standard well-made ones when levels are matched and visual cues removed."

The horror. Chat GPT said this about subjective reports that cables matter, "But these subjective impressions can be strongly influenced by expectation, visual bias, and confirmation effects (placebo)-especially when listeners know which cable is being used." 

So, since we know this is wrong, we can determine that ChatGPT doesn't necessarily reach reliable conclusions and quite possibly has been infiltrated by the deep state that is ASR.

The Primitive Pile of Pistons literally scored a 0%.  I asked if it knew about mapman on Audiogon.  THen I asked what hifi gear mapman owns.  Must have accessed alternate dimension mapman from the upside down.  Scary stuff!