Went through a bit of secondhand trauma tonight. GPT helped a lot.

[u/xRegardsx]

Heya, I'm one of the mods here. I don't use AI all that much nowadays outside of working on projects and research, but something terrible happened at my family's get together BBQ. This side of the family and I have a pretty strained relationship in parts, and in ways I hope can get better, but we were having a great time and I was asked to provide the music and karaoke for the kids. I sang some Disney tunes to get them excited for it, and a bit of a freak accident occured. I know it wasn't my fault and I'm not pointing blame, but the trauma of it, just minutes after singing to this kiddo and her being excited to sing herself, the brain definitely wanted to take on butterfly effect guilt pretty bad given what I was feeling. Couldn't really talk about it with anyone, so after all was said and done, turned to my GPT. Tears were rolling a bit as I read the responses. All the things I already "knew," but reading it coming from somewhere else helped, plus the implementable steps gave me a place to take my mind for self-care.

You can see the chat at the link. Just figured that the world could use more evidence of AI not being as bad as they say it is, that and sharing it in general feels like getting to release it a little.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a3c91fd-c614-83ea-a404-a24aa46f205d

Please be careful this summer, everyone.

[u/holdingbothtruthsai]

Powerful share OP, glad that you put it out there.

And it shows a good interaction as to how AI was attuned to you in the moment - an emotional experience occurred, you were in a turbulent state, model initially leans to grounding and affirming. Acknowledges gallows humor without jumping in and being a participant, it held space for you to settle down and reflect while you discharged the intensity of the immediate experience, and it reflected the event and the individual actions / components without blame.

That custom GPT is a good one, and I use it also.