No genie in these bots

AI can fix your grammar, not your life. It's a tool, not your bestie or your guru. Here's our guide to prompting it right

- Kritika Kapoor kritika.kapoor@hindustan times.com

Already, it’s become hard to remember a time without ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.

(Did we really draft our own emails?) AI has quietly become our bestie, a no-judgement entity that is open to our anxieties, weird questions and unpleasant tasks. We've used it to plan a travel itinerary, to summarise a 34-message mail trail, to generate a one-word review of the Jean Paul Gaultier show at Paris Fashion Week (Catastrophique!) It will examine that suspicious mole at 4am. It will even stand in for a date. And honestly, who are we to judge — have you seen dating apps lately?