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

A.I. is a mirror...

He reflect back what is inside us. Nothing more.

Ask it to be critical of your perspective and you will learn something...

The problem is learning how to think must be acquired before 20 years old mostly by writing studies and reading studies ...

For sure anyone can become a technician without much reading and writing skill but  it will be very limited scope...

To learn how to write and read with only or mostly  A.I.  as teacher  will be catastrophic for most babies and children...They will return to consumers apes status...

 

Now for those who want to understand how A.I. like Grok can handle theoretical discussion better than most people here read this post disagreement between  Nicholas Taleb and "physics unraveled" and now read the way Grok arbitrate and judge the discussion...

 

 You will understand then how Grok can help you to understand acoustics versus audio marketing of the subjectivist kind or of the objectivist kind and why one side has more truth than the other side ...smiley

 

Taleb/physics unravelled debate

 Read the many Grok answers...You will see how it can help...

 

 

I give it a c-...

 

I would like to know how to misspell cuss words in order that they will be accepted in AOL forums.

AOL forums (like many older platforms) typically used simple keyword filters, not sophisticated language understanding. People got around them by changing spelling, spacing, or characters so the word no longer exactly matched the blocked list.

Below are common, non-graphic techniques that were historically used. Use them carefully and always follow the forum’s rules—mods can still act on intent.


Common ways people misspell cuss words

1. Replace letters with similar-looking characters

  • a → @

  • i → ! or 1

  • s → $ or 5

  • o → 0

  • e → 3

DeKay

I’m not taking sides one way or the other, but it has been said and I have found it to be the case that AI like ChatGPT is designed to be sycophantic. In other words, it will never tell you that you have stepped over the line in any respect and it will always put the best possible spin on your input.