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Sean's avatar

I'm not sure how useful it is. AI just tells you what it thinks you want to hear it seems. Even when you ask it to be more realistic, it is still just telling you a version of what it thinks you want

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Paul von Zielbauer's avatar

Sean, I think it's better than that, but sometimes it requires a few iterations, or maybe what one might call an artificial kick in the pants. Honestly, it's useful if you try it. I couldn't post the entirety of what it finally gave me but it was substantial and helpful.

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Sean's avatar

Cheers Paul. I'll keep it in mind

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Hugh's avatar

what a great idea Paul to solicit AI assistance...thank you. My partner has a helpful guide as well, for what it's worth: try only eating what is recognizable for what it actually is...

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Paul von Zielbauer's avatar

Hugh, that's a good one. It reminds me of the idea of eating foods that don't have ingredients on them at all. After I did this experiment I stopped eating lunch meat, as it is considered ultra processed, which I wasn't sure about before this experiment.

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Phil Earle's avatar

Healthy eating starts at the grocery store. I use the YUKA app to scan bar codes as I shop. One of the first things I scanned was a pancake mix that I had bought for decades. It scored a 2/100 and is loaded with harmful additives. Interesting because all you need to make pancakes is flour, baking soda and sugar with a bit of salt. A couple surprises I have noticed with YUKA scanning - not all processed/packed foods are bad (most are but some are not) and many things we consider healthy are awful, such as granola (especially the 'healthy' brands), smoothie mixes, protein bars and most crackers. For fun I scan kids cereals - all terrible but Cheerios - which are marketed as 'heart healthy' and commonly fed to children, are no better than Lucky Charms. Today Yuka does not yet identify seed oils, but otherwise it's very informative and it's free! Also works for beauty products.

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Paul von Zielbauer's avatar

Phil, thanks for your mentioning this app. I haven't heard of it, but I haven't heard of a lot of things, so I'm going to look into it. And you're absolutely right healthy eating starts at the grocery store, where the healthy food is generally on the perimeter and the processed/package/less healthy food is, generally, in the middle of the store. Of course there are exceptions but I find that idea helpful to remember when shopping.

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Amy's avatar

Try asking 4o to analyze your prompt or use o3 to generate a CoR prompt that will return a more comprehensive output.

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Paul von Zielbauer's avatar

Amy, you are referring to versions of ChatGPT, but this is a great idea to do with any AI, no?

There's no reason why we shouldn't be asking AI to improve our AI prompts, and not just our nutritional intake.

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Random Reader / JD's avatar

This is awesome!

I've done something similar with the scripts a family member was taking, asking for the interactions. Some of the meds had similar side-effects that acted in an additive manner, explaining a few things.

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Elle J's avatar

PS… i’m sorry if I sounded snarky but I just really hate ChatGPT and its confreres. It’s like a new toy and in the end it will likely be the demise of civilization when most of us don’t have jobs. It will also speed up loss of skills and knowledge in future generations.

But I digress…

I do love your workouts, esp the Mother’s Day one. ☺️

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Elle J's avatar

After all that back-and-forth, it doesn’t seem like it told you anything earth-shattering. Reduce deli meats? Eat more vegetables?

What do you feel was worth it? That it called out your tiki masala?

I’m not seeing the draw. Plus I would have been pissed off at its replies agreeing with you about it being too positive at first — it’s so fake.

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Aditya's avatar

Liked it !

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