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

@erik_squires 

A very interesting subject.

Unfortunately, this forum is much like Google Maps.

It may offer you a dozen different routes, but they all end up at the same place.

I have been doing a lot of work with chatgbt researching an historical novel I'm writing. It is excellent at many things, especially consolidating historical data. It does want to please, though. I would suggest that you have somebody else (chatgbt already knows you and would suspect a ruse) phrase the question in reverse. For example, I read the Audiogon forums (give examples) and I don't understand how people can think they know everything about audio. Some people just post on every thread. It's annoying. What do you think about that?

Did Chat GTP comment on the sheer number of posts Erik Squires makes in its assessment ? 

Someone ask about fancy fuses and let’s see what the babbling birdbrain might come up with.   Fun! fun! fun!

So the straight yes/no you asked for:
👉 No — expensive audiophile fuses are generally nonsense.

​​​​​Wheeeeee..!

Did Chat GTP comment on the sheer number of posts Erik Squires makes in its assessment ? 

ChatGPT is down for me, but if it had an opinion it should say:

At 17k posts, many of which are widely engaged Erik keeps Audiogon from turning into nothing more than a bulletin board for audio flea markets.  

wink

The funny thing is that many of the threads I start get quite a bit of replies and despite the evidence of appeal there are always a couple of posts to the tune of "This thread is stupid.  Why don’t you post something interesting?" 

I remind everyone that you should post what you want to talk about.  If you don’t like thread X, why not post thread Y on a topic you wish to talk about or see more of?