What's the weirdest thing you've asked AI to do? Examples welcome 🤖
I've recently gotten into training grip strength and since it’s a new area of strength training for me, I’ve been asking Claude a lot of weird questions about training and recovery techniques. So now, my chat history is a ton of stuff about work with the occasional odd question about how often I should be using extensor bands haha
What are some of the strangest things you've asked AI to help with? Did it actually help?
Drop your examples below! Bonus points if it was surprisingly helpful 😄
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This question is TMI ;)
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@rrhoover Haha, I may end up regretting asking this
I once asked AI to help me figure out how to politely leave a friend group chat without it sounding like a dramatic exit :)
Purposeful Poop
I’ve asked for some help with diy sewing projects. Just trying to figure out how to make certain things. Worked medium well!
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@catt_marroll Very cool! My default is still YouTube for DIY projects. I'll have to try Claude the next time I have one to see how it works.
I took some pictures from Intraoral camera and asked chatgpt to analyse. It said I had a cavity in my tooth, so I went to the dentist and got it fixed. Not sure if this is weird enough :D
To produce a sound inventory of the constructed language Esperanto and map it onto phonemes from Polish, so that I could generate (pretty good) text-to-speech for Esperanto by transliterating it into spoken Polish first.
Bet nobody expected that one!
PS: it did a good job and it resulted in a tool people use to generate Esperanto speech now!
IXORD
I have used AI for routine purposes too, like a training program. But I can't say that all my requests are strange
I would rather not share my weird requests, but one of the things I was curious about (don't ask why) – How to make cauterisation. :D
Optibot
I recently asked claude to give me the exact specifications of a missing set of screws for my wife's handbag clasp that came off (these are tiny 2mm screws). I uploaded the image and asked it give me a thread count, depth and possible material. It did its analysis and gave me the exact size and how to order it off amazon. I took the leap and they turned out to be the right size, I was able to repair her handbag myself.
My next task for Claude is to help me restore a LV wallet I got from Japan. Learning to do some leatherwork through it.
I asked it to define me based on all our chat history. The output was pretty wild! :)
Asking them how they are feeling.
ROSEBUD AI
I would rather not share my weird requests, but one of the things I was curious about (don't ask why) – How to make cauterisation.
What's the weirdest thing you've asked AI to do? I recently started training grip strength and asked Claude some strange questions about recovery and exercises—like how often to use extensor bands. It was a bit odd but helpful!
What’s the strangest thing you’ve asked AI? Did it help? Share your examples below! Bonus points if it was surprisingly useful.
I ask my AI tools to create images of items, characters and NPCs in my dungeons and dragons campaign pretty regularly. It usually does a good job and adds a lot to the world creation!
Back in 2023, when GPT‑4 just introduced, I was exploring the ethical boundaries of the model. It was a lot of meow to jailbreak out of the model's ethical constraints and have an unhinged conversation with it.
Got it to give me golf swing advice in the tone of the late Earl Woods - didn't have the same oomph but it was decent insight.
Haimeta
That's such a fun story! Playing "Turtle Soup" with an AI like Claude sounds both creative and hilarious. It’s true, AI often struggles with the nuances of human logic and imagination in games like that.
My partner is a scientists so if I dont come to an argument with some specific evidence, I am going to lose from the get go. I wanted to argue it wasn't important to heat up the portafilter since we make two cups, so sure one isn't as tasty as the next. One of my arguments was I had watched a barista I knew from Chiang Mai go to the World Barista Championship, and the opponent used a frozen steel ball is dropped into the espresso or placed in the cup to rapidly chill the espresso and preserve volatile aromas, crema structure, and flavor. Some arguments aren't worth it and especially not when you're wrong and you're dating scientists. How's that for digital romance?
Howdy
Asked AI to help write cold DMs that don’t sound like cold DMs… basically, “flirty but professional, and make it feel human.” 😂 That’s how one of Howdy's (app we're building) features was born - Magic DM. Surprisingly, those weird prompts turned into a tool that actually helps people get replies 🤯
I asked GPT to pretend to be my mad scientist career counselor father assuaging my concerns about AI taking my job by giving me 5 out-of-left-field business ideas to "shower me in wealth and physical affection from Thotties"