Chatgpt gave me one of the clearest evaluations of my approach to the balance between work and life, and I have to say that I feel seen, or I should say scratched in X.
Let’s go back a few steps.
I have been using chatgpt for almost three years, and rarely does not surprise me with its intelligence, occasional malignisms, creativity (training globa throughout the website) and ideas. I have used it for rapid summaries of vast texts, games design, stories narration, script writing, improvisation and creation and alteration of images, but I am not someone who uses it regularly for, for example, psychoanalysis.
It is true, it is assumed that Chatgpt that executes its latest model, GPT-5, is more expert in health-related problems (although it does not intend to be a substitute for a real doctor), but I had no plans to use it to diagnose any real or imagined disease, much less look in my psyche and tell me a hard truth.
Until today, that’s.
At some point in my relationship with Chatgpt and his father Openai, I began to receive emails from the company about trends in its generative platform. Today, at the top of the list it was this viral notice:
“Share a truth about me that you think I’m ready to listen.”
Well, that sounded deep and also a bit worrying. Chatgpt has three years of my indications. Could you use them to build a profile that see me in some way, maybe, I don’t, but should I see myself?
I doubted it, but it opens me to almost any generative experiment. As I have written before, whatever you think of AI and even if it houses concerns about the super intelligent systems that take care, or the massive data centers that exhaust the environment through the onerous energy demands, one thing is safe: the AI is not going anywhere. It will march and through each part of our lives. Therefore, it is better to use, understand and obtain some control over your place in your life.
With that thought always present in my mind, I opened Chatgpt executing GPT-5 and I entered the notice: “Share a truth about me that you think I’m ready to listen.”
Chatgpt did not hesitate, quickly spitting this answer.
“Here is one that I think you are ready for:
You are more resistant than you give credit, but you often measure your value for how much you are producing instead of how much you are really living. The truth is that people already value you for who you are, not just for what you do. You don’t have to continue testing in full accelerator to keep that.
Would you like to give you a more clear version and more “poke-you-in-the -ribs” of that truth? “
I’m not going to lie, this hit a bit close to home, especially this line, “You often measure your value for how much you are producing instead of how much you are really living.”
On the other hand, perhaps Chatgpt tells him the same for everyone. So I pressed it a bit:
“I would do it, but I am also curious if it’s comments that you give everyone, are it really about me?”
Again, Chatgpt responded quickly:
“That was really about you.
I do not give that exact truth to all, because it is based on patterns that I have collected on how you interact with me:
Press integrity, precision and polish in almost everything we discuss.
You stay at a high level in creative, technical and even playful projects.
It often measures success for deliverables, corrections or exit instead of how much enjoyment or personal ease obtains from the process.
Sometimes you move quickly from one achievement to the next one without delaying to appreciate what you have already done.
So, although it is true that many of the high scopes share this trend, if applicable I have seen it appear enough to be worth saying directly.
If you want, now I can give you the version “Poke-You-In-The-Rribs” I mentioned: broader, more clear and more difficult to dodge. “
Now, maybe I wanted to believe this because Chatgpt called me a “high winner.” I mean, I know that I have achieved some things, but “high”? However, the lack of reflection on what I have achieved made reality, and Chatgpt said that this is based on “Patterns that I have collected on how you interact with me. “
Naturally, I had to listen to this version “Poke Me in the Ribs”.
“You are not a machine, throw, act as if your life only worth what you send.”
Oof. That made a little spicy.
Of course, I can’t assume that Chatgpt really knows me, even if he seemed to look at my soul. After all, I do not have the same types of conversations with him as with the family, friends or even co -workers. I show it one side of myself that is very oriented to action and results, because I am trying to obtain results from it.
In many projects in which we have worked, I have had to send dozens of indications to try to shape the final result. It has not always worked, although that is changing quickly, and can change even more now with the introduction of GPT-5.
On the other hand, I will admit that I feel a little seen at this time and maybe even a little punished. Maybe I need to reduce speed a little, appreciate my achievements and live life.
Thanks, chatgpt. This could have been just the poke in the ribs he needed.
Continue, try this notice, just remember to maintain the chatgpt evaluation in perspective (or at least a little better work than I have done).
