17 real, sourced examples of what people do with ChatGPT, ranked by community upvotes.
Dave Plummer, the former Microsoft engineer behind Windows Task Manager, asked ChatGPT to optimize a memcpy he wrote for the Motorola 68000. It proposed moving 12 registe…
▲ 439 on X · X · 2026-10-13
Panos Ipeirotis's Norse Atlantic flight from Oslo was delayed overnight, and the airline offered a $25 card. ChatGPT walked him through EU261, the Norwegian complaint bod…
Blog · 2026-07-22
Loren Cole fed Parkingeye's letters into ChatGPT, which pointed out gaps such as a floor plan sent instead of photos of the signs. Parkingeye withdrew its court claim, an…
Manchester Evening News · 2025-12-19
Student Millie Houlton had a resident permit but got a £60 fine anyway. She gave ChatGPT the details and her fine reference, sent the letter it wrote to York council, and…
Birmingham Live · 2023-03-31
When their landlord kept about $1,000 of the deposit, Chris Maloney ran his lease through ChatGPT. It flagged that New York caps deposits at one month's rent, and they ha…
Yahoo News (SWNS) · 2024-12-04
Jamie Phillis used ChatGPT to read her dental bill. It flagged a screening she didn't consent to, two evaluations billed on the same day, and photos charged at seven time…
Business Insider · 2026-03-30
When her husband's insurer called a nuclear stress test experimental and denied it, NJ Shelsby used ChatGPT Deep Research to find five peer-reviewed studies, then drafted…
LinkedIn · 2026-01-27
Amanda Caswell felt lost in her daughter's IEP process. She asked ChatGPT to explain IEPs, decode terms like FAPE and LRE, check whether the goals were measurable, and pr…
Tom's Guide · 2025-04-08
Returning to job hunting after 10 years, former lawyer Santiago Barraza Lopez used ChatGPT to clarify what role he wanted, rewrite his résumé for each target job, draft c…
Business Insider · 2025-06-08
Frances Zhu asked ChatGPT to interview her about an off-the-beaten-path week in Japan. They settled on Matsumoto, Takayama, Shirakawa-go, Kanazawa and the Kiso Valley. Sh…
Blog · 2024-10-01
Emily Wise gives ChatGPT her diet, dislikes, snack habits and budget, asks for the meal plan and recipes in separate steps, and gets a grocery list sorted by category wit…
The Everygirl · 2025-03-20
Jeff Kaufman had let his high-school Spanish fade. Using ChatGPT's voice mode, he spoke more Spanish in one week than in the previous fifteen years. He notes you need som…
Blog · 2026-03-24
Ted and Tami Taylor, who own three quick-service restaurants in New Mexico, use ChatGPT to draft required health procedures, reply to customer complaints and write a soci…
OpenAI Academy · 2026-08-06
Realtor Jennifer Allan asked ChatGPT for one money task a day to attack $23,000 of credit card debt. Some ideas were quirky, like auctioning a photo of a watermelon for $…
ABC News · 2025-07-10
In store, Aritzia staff refused to exchange a hoodie and sweatpants that didn't fit because they were final sale. TikToker @shescutesy emailed customer service with a req…
Narcity · 2023-02-08
With a new washer already picked out online, Ewan MacLeod showed ChatGPT the error light and model label. It walked him through opening the drain filter with a flathead s…
Conversational AI News · 2025-02-04
After a door-to-door rep offered fiber for $50 a month, AJ Stuyvenberg had ChatGPT negotiate his Verizon bill through Verizon's own live chat. After a little over an hour…
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