2023-04-27 14:17:53
But is the time it saves us worth the time it saves us? And who takes care of guiding it?
Among the millions of ChatGPT users, many use it as part of their work to summarize documents, translate texts, write emails… Some adventurous men and women have made it a more personal life companion: a kind of help with household chores.
In The Atlantic, Carole Alalouf, director of an animation company, married and mother of two teenagers testifies. She says she uses ChatGPT to innovate the recipes she cooks for her family. Because with a husband on the Keto diet, her on the Mediterranean diet, two non-pork and seafood eaters in her family, she felt like she was cooking the same meals over and over again, driving her “crazy.” “, she confided to the American media. ChatGPT therefore allowed him to explore new recipes. On TikTok, making the chatbot’s improbable dishes, concocted from ingredients in his fridge, has become a rising trend stamped by the hashtag chatgptrecipe (618,000 views).
ChatGPT, tell us a story
In addition to cooking, some ask the chatbot to make the shopping list, or to invent stories for their children. Naif Alanazi, a 35-year-old doctoral student, explains to the New York Times that every day he uses ChatGPT to create a whole new story to tell his 4-year-old daughter. The father of the family sometimes asks him to build the narrative frame around a value such as honesty or kindness.
Raina Kumra, leader interviewed by The Atlantic, uses the chatbot to organize her children’s holidays. She says she saved a dozen hours of work thanks to him.
But the American media wonders: is this new technological aid really one? If ChatGPT saves a little time on certain tasks, it adds, like any new tool, a dose of unplanned work. Since it helps you innovate in your recipes, more time will have to be spent shopping for new ingredients and then making that unfamiliar menu. Sometimes ChatGPT does not deliver the right information: you have to spend some time checking and correcting. And to reduce its pitfalls, it is better to develop a skill in the development of the prompt.
But for sociologist Melissa Milkie, a sociologist at the University of Toronto, every minute saved is precious and ChatGPT is good news for that. Because the time devoted to household chores has not changed significantly for more than two decades, she specifies to The Atlantic.
Breaking news: he will not overcome the mental load
Still, if the AI allows you to plan (or even execute) a task more quickly, it does not remove the mental load. That is to say all the thoughts related to the organization of the household and the kitchen, to making an appointment with the pediatrician and other administrative procedures… which mainly concern women. Two out of 3 women feel affected in France, compared to 1 out of 3 men, according to a 2018 Ipsos survey. And who will be responsible for “guiding” ChatGPT in helping with domestic work? For applications that help organize family life, we know the answer. It is generally women who download them, consult them, and fill in the necessary information, as explained in an article by MIT Technology Review. 86% of users of Cozi, an app for managing household chores schedules, are women, for example. Because – big news – an application (or a chatbot) unfortunately cannot undo decades of sexism.
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