In this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss codependency on generative AI and the growing risks of over-relying on generative AI tools like ChatGPT.

You’ll discover the hidden dangers when asking AI for advice, especially concerning health, finance, or legal matters. You’ll learn why AI’s helpful answers aren’t always truthful and how outdated information can mislead you. You’ll grasp powerful prompting techniques to guide AI towards more accurate and relevant results. You’ll find strategies to use AI more critically and avoid potentially costly mistakes. Watch the full episode for essential strategies to navigate AI safely and effectively!

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Christopher S. Penn – 00:00
In this week’s In Ear Insights, let’s talk about the way that people are prompting generative AI tools like ChatGPT. I saw my friend Rebecca the other day was posting about how she had asked ChatGPT about a bunch of nutritional supplements she was taking and some advice for them. And I immediately went, oh, stop.

We have three areas where we do not just ask generative AI for information because of the way the model is trained. Those areas are finance, law and health. In those areas, they’re high risk areas. If you’re asking ChatGPT for advice without providing good data, the answers are really suspect. Katie, you also had some thoughts about how you’re seeing people using ChatGPT on LinkedIn.

Katie Robbert – 00:55
Well, I was saying this morning that it’s hard to go on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is where we’re all trying to connect with each other professionally, be thought leaders, share our experience. But it’s so hard for me personally, and this is my own opinion because every time I open LinkedIn the first thing I see is a post that says, “Today I asked ChatGPT.”

Every post starts with, “So I was talking with ChatGPT.” “ChatGPT was telling me this morning.” And the codependency that I’m seeing being built with these tools is alarming to me and I’m oversimplifying it, but I don’t see these tools as any better than when you were just doing an Internet search. What I mean by that is the quality of the data is not necessarily better.

Katie Robbert – 01:49
They can do more bells and whistles, they have more functions, they can summarize things, they can do backflips and create images and whatever. But the data is not different. You’re not getting better quality data. If anything, you’re probably getting more junk because you’re not asking specific questions like you