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Amanda Caswell

Local AI taught me a better way to use ChatGPT — and it starts with one sentence

Smartphone displaying ChatGPT logo held in front of white OpenAI logo on green background.

Even if you’ve never tried using local AI, there’s a lot to learn from the people who do. These users are unique in that they don't accept the average chatbot as-is. Instead, they tweak settings, customize system prompts and think carefully about how a model behaves before it ever answers a question.

And while that may sound technical, especially if prefer to use mainstream chatbots, there's a lesson we can learn from these users.

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