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A thread titled “Tell me what you use AI for” popped up on the 5ch forums, pulling in a wide range of answers — from proofreading text and app development, to building a tool that auto-generates video continuations in a local environment, to scripts that automate office work. Practical examples came up too, like polishing English emails or researching foreign economies to inform investment decisions, and discussion of what differs between the free and paid tiers — but one comment, “isn’t ‘semi-automating office work’ just bookkeeping in the end?”, sparked disagreement over what should even count as "automation."
What people said
Right now it's proofreading work documents
and simple app development
Not erotic, but I did have it turn a bunch of plot outlines I'd stockpiled into an actual story
You feed it a video and instructions, and it continues it exactly as told
Wow, you can actually do that
Never would've imagined it
This is exactly the kind of use I wouldn't have thought of myself
Right now I'm trying ChatGPT Plus ("Chappy," 5ch slang for ChatGPT) free for a month
Isn't that basically just bookkeeping?
I just want it to help organize my adult videos though
Made it so I could easily add captions and do all sorts of things
So basically bookkeeping, right?
Got it working by combining it with a rooted device
Honestly I don't really get what the difference is
With the paid version you can have it do local work
Or rather, the point being made is: aren't you just convincing yourself that's "office work"?
That's because you don't have to accommodate it (lol)
Really made me realize how sloppy my English has been all this time
No, I meant the replies up above on 5ch —
AI really is better at holding a conversation
Lining them up side by side for comparison isn't something you can really do on a PC or phone screen
You can actually run it right in this thread
I built it six months ago, so I'd need to test whether it still runs in the current environment
Even UPLIFT's login setup changes every few months
But if you give it the right instructions, the AI will dig in and check whether that's changed too
Try making it reply in the style of Dazai Osamu (famous early-20th-century Japanese novelist)
It's a load off my mind
34,000 yen total
So you're spending 400,000 yen a year on this?
Context and Talking Points
Free plans for generative AI tools like ChatGPT mostly run their processing in the cloud, and getting one to handle local file operations or ongoing automation usually requires a paid plan or an API key. The thread’s disagreement over the difference between “semi-automating office work” and “bookkeeping” stems from that blurry boundary — routine tasks like cleaning up payment and deposit data may really be the same work no matter whether you call it “office work” or “bookkeeping.” Examples like proofreading English emails or researching foreign economies for investment decisions are typical cases of people without specialized expertise using AI to support their own decision-making. Meanwhile, the observation that AI’s growing ability to convincingly manipulate video and images could undermine the reliability of “evidence” like security camera footage reads as a case of technological progress rippling into unexpected corners.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “Tell Me What You Use AI For.”
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