All statements about ChatGPT

55 statements about ChatGPT in 28 sources, by upload date.

2025

2025-01-31 · Why Everyone Needs a Personal Website — Ali: Citing ChatGPT, Ali says the average person in the US applies for over 600 jobs in their lifetime, so even a tiny increase in the chance of being hired could make a huge difference. — 00:03:53
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali's three-step process for writing anything: speak into VoicePal, the app he built with his team; put the result into ChatGPT or Claude; then make the final edits in Notion. — 00:00:58
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — recommendation: Ali almost always gives Claude and ChatGPT basically the same prompt and compares the drafts; he keeps a LifeNotes project in each. — 00:05:28
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali finds Claude better at writing about 80% of the time, but ChatGPT's memory function means it knows more about him, so about 20% of the time it gives a better first draft. — 00:05:56
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali says he has used Claude and ChatGPT for years and his team uses AI for pretty much every aspect of its workflow and his personal life; he asks viewers what they want to see in more videos of the series. — 00:11:40
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — recommendation: Ali: Data analysis is another major use of AI for Ali: any CSV or spreadsheet he can give to ChatGPT or Claude to analyse. — 00:12:08
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali: For casual voice search such as tour guiding on the go, Ali prefers Claude to ChatGPT because Claude transcribes with one click where ChatGPT needs two: the friction removed decides it. — 00:16:46
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali does not like ChatGPT's real-time voice feature because it talks too slowly. — 00:16:46
2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali asked ChatGPT for sushi he could cook for his wife on Valentine's Day, since she loves sushi but is pregnant and cannot eat raw fish. — 00:17:09
2025-03-11 · What to do if you hate your job — Ali: With ChatGPT, Claude and other AI tools it is increasingly possible to figure almost anything out, Ali says; even if you fail, showing your boss how you tried to solve the problem makes them feel you are irreplaceable. — 00:14:34
2025-03-28 · Honest YouTube Advice for 45 Minutes Straight (2026) — Ali made How to Get Rich on inspiration alone, with no Spotter Studio, A/B testing or AI tools, speaking from the heart, and calls it his favourite video filmed this year (2025). — 00:11:02
2025-05-03 · 17 Cheap Purchases That Actually Improved My Life — Ali: VoicePal, which Ali's team has built over about 12 months, has thousands of users worldwide: you speak, it asks follow-up questions, and you export a draft to Notion, Google Docs, Claude or ChatGPT. — 00:15:03
2025-05-09 · How to Get Ahead of 99% of People (Discipline Isn't Enough) — Ali finds that feeling the emotion behind a hard decision gives him more clarity than his default tendency to journal and logic his way to it, typing things out and talking to ChatGPT. — 01:09:05
2025-05-28 · Getting Rich is a Game. Here’s How to Win. — Ali: If a business can get a job done by paying for ChatGPT, Ali says, there is no reason for it to keep an employee doing that job. — 00:19:55
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali suggests giving the AI different personas to distort the mirror, such as a drill-sergeant prompt he found on the ChatGPT prompts subreddit. (hedged) — 00:17:00
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — Ali's memory-based workflow does not work on Claude, which has no memory feature, but works nicely on ChatGPT. — 00:26:13
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali's memory-based prompt for ChatGPT, from the ChatGPT prompts subreddit, asks: what is my hidden narrative and subtext, the one thing I never express, the fear I don't admit? — 00:26:13
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — Ali says he definitely feels the sense ChatGPT describes, that if he pauses long enough something unbearable will catch up with him. — 00:27:35
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — Ali: Reading ChatGPT's unpacking of his hidden fear, Ali says he feels himself almost tearing up. — 00:28:53
2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — Ali: A single ChatGPT prompt copied from Reddit hit Ali, he says, in a way none of the professional coaches he has paid ever have. — 00:31:55
2025-06-13 · He Built a $1M Business in 12 Months - Every Step Explained (Case Study) — Ali says people use not knowing how to learn something as an excuse: if that holds you back you should never start a business, since YouTube, Google and ChatGPT will tell you. — 02:37:33
2025-06-23 · 5 AI Tools I Use Every Day — Ali now uses Claude by Anthropic for most things rather than ChatGPT because he finds it much better, and likes that you can talk to the app directly. — 00:00:00
2025-07-22 · What 8 Years on YouTube Taught Me About Life — Ali: About every three months for the last five years Ali has had a mini existential crisis about his channel, worked through with hours of journaling and talks with friends, his wife and ChatGPT. — 00:11:40
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: From talking to ChatGPT and Claude, Ali learned that it differs by baby when they sleep through the night, which is defined as sleeping six hours in a row. — 00:16:24
2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: A deep-research query with ChatGPT and Claude told Ali that it makes little difference whether parents do the night feeds, as long as a competent, emotionally present carer responds to the baby's needs. — 00:30:17
2025-08-08 · Financial Freedom is Easy, After You Learn This — recommendation: Ali Abdaal (channel): To check whether an idea has enough demand, the channel replies that these days you can just ask ChatGPT. — creator comment
2025-08-08 · Financial Freedom is Easy, After You Learn This — Ali: University students have all the time in the world, Ali says: classes and placements are optional, holidays are long and ChatGPT can write your work if you really need it. — 00:43:05
2025-08-14 · Top 3 Reasons Why You Should Journal — recommendation: Ali: You can photograph or type what you journal into ChatGPT or Claude so the AI responds to it, which Ali calls journaling on steroids since AI tools came out; Claude is his personal favourite. — 00:00:58
2025-09-02 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — recommendation: Ali: You can ask ChatGPT to teach you these business skills or to interview you and help you find your niche, Ali says. — 00:43:33
2025-09-02 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — Ali: For the 1K Challenge Ali made a couple of custom GPTs, which he finds remarkably effective at helping people find their niche or what product to make. — 00:43:33
2025-09-02 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — Ali: Each of the eight or nine skills behind a six-figure lifestyle business takes perhaps a few hours to learn with ChatGPT, the right video and one audiobook, far less than a university degree, Ali says. — 00:58:59
2025-09-02 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — Ali: Angus and Jamie, a friend of Ali's, meet on a weekly one-hour Zoom call where each talks to ChatGPT instead of going to therapy; both say it has been more valuable than therapy, and Angus says he would not bother without Jamie on the call. — 01:13:03
2025-09-02 · Can Humans Beat AI in 2025? — Ali finds ChatGPT annoyingly good at writing a video script for a title; he doesn't think he will be better than the AI, but he can be more human, so he ties his videos to personal stories. — 00:00:29
2025-09-26 · Easy, Boring Business Ideas to Start in 2026 - Answering your Questions — Ali: Copywriting, data analytics, Google Analytics and A/B testing can be learned by anyone with an internet connection, Ali says, free on YouTube or by asking ChatGPT. — 00:05:54
2025-09-26 · Easy, Boring Business Ideas to Start in 2026 - Answering your Questions — recommendation: Ali: If you don't know who would pay for your skill, ask ChatGPT, Ali says: with Claude and ChatGPT you really don't need a business coach, though one still helps; he personally likes Claude. — 00:09:41
2025-09-26 · Easy, Boring Business Ideas to Start in 2026 - Answering your Questions — recommendation: Ali suggests recording customer conversations with permission, for example on VoicePal, the app he and his wife built, and asking ChatGPT or Claude for business ideas from them. — 00:13:58
2025-09-26 · Easy, Boring Business Ideas to Start in 2026 - Answering your Questions — recommendation: Ali: Instead of a copy-paste business, Ali advises asking which people with money you would enjoy serving, which painful problems you would enjoy solving, and which skills you have or would enjoy learning. — 00:15:44
2025-09-26 · Easy, Boring Business Ideas to Start in 2026 - Answering your Questions — recommendation: Ali: Non-competes generally only bar a business in the same industry, Ali says; put your employment contract into ChatGPT and ask which businesses it allows you to start. — 00:27:24
2025-09-30 · If I was a student again, I’d do this — recommendation: Ali: To find high-income skills to learn as a student, Ali suggests simply asking Claude or ChatGPT. — 00:22:17
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali: Claude has replaced Ali's ChatGPT use: ChatGPT's memory of past chats was the last reason he used it, and since Claude added memory a week ago he has not needed ChatGPT for anything. — 00:05:17
2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali prefers Claude to ChatGPT because its personality is nicer and more engaging, its writing is better, and it is less of a sycophantic yes man. — 00:05:17
2025-11-08 · How I Get My Best Ideas While Showering — Ali: VoicePal, the app Ali's team builds, records for up to 90 minutes, and its clean transcript can be exported to ChatGPT, Claude, Notion or Google Docs. — 00:00:29
2025-12-05 · The Easiest Business to Start in 2026 for Beginners — Ali does not think online courses will be around much longer: with AI slop, anyone wanting to learn something just asks ChatGPT, and the bar for free content keeps rising. — 00:14:24
2025-12-12 · How to change your life by journaling in 2026 — recommendation: Ali suggests having the conversation with yourself on paper, or pasting it into ChatGPT or Claude for an analysis. — 00:13:10

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2024

2024-01-19 · Why You Feel Lost in Life — recommendation: Ali suggests writing out notes on how you want to be remembered and putting them into ChatGPT to draft your obituary, or writing it yourself. — 00:20:35
2024-06-21 · 5 High Income Skills for Students to Learn in 2026 — recommendation: Ali's fifth high-income skill is coding, which he calls surprisingly accessible: free YouTube tutorials teach the basics, and AI tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT are phenomenally game-changing help. — 00:27:41
2024-11-29 · How to Build a Business Part-Time — recommendation: Ali: With ChatGPT or Claude you can whip up a sales page on your phone in about ten minutes, Ali says. — 00:29:31
2024-12-03 · 5 Simple Steps to Earn $10,000 Writing Online — recommendation: Nicolas Cole: Asked about automating outreach with ChatGPT, Nicolas Cole says the big misunderstanding with AI is wanting to automate things you have never done: you can't automate what you haven't done. — 00:31:19
2024-12-03 · 5 Simple Steps to Earn $10,000 Writing Online — recommendation: Ali's takeaway: go through the whole process yourself first so you understand how it works; AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude can come later, but using them as a crutch early means you probably won't make it. — 00:32:35
2024-12-12 · 6 Habits to Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet — recommendation: Ali: Without VoicePal, Ali suggests any speech-to-transcript software, then pasting the transcript into ChatGPT and editing it in Notion, Google Docs or Microsoft Word. — 00:20:52

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2023

2023-03-26 · 6 AI Tools I Use Every Day — announcement: Ali: ChatGPT is the AI chatbot made by OpenAI, which Ali calls the leading force in AI over recent months for releasing GPT-3, GPT-3.5 (ChatGPT) and, very recently, GPT-4. — 00:00:29
2023-03-26 · 6 AI Tools I Use Every Day — Ali's main personal use of ChatGPT is idea generation: for a chapter of his book he asked it for scientific case studies linking play, dopamine, novelty and productivity. — 00:00:58
2023-03-26 · 6 AI Tools I Use Every Day — Ali says ChatGPT's limitation is that the language model just predicts the next word, so it often makes leaps of logic or says things that are not true. — 00:02:46
2023-03-26 · 6 AI Tools I Use Every Day — Ali: When ChatGPT's answers miss, Ali narrows the prompt: asking for real-world examples of adding novelty to mundane work tasks, excluding gamification, gave him ideas such as walking meetings to explore. — 00:03:15
2023-03-26 · 6 AI Tools I Use Every Day — Ali: ChatGPT is often at capacity; Ali pays for ChatGPT Plus at $20 a month, which he finds totally worth it because he uses it a lot for research. — 00:03:44